JOHN L. MCCRACKEN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CHARLES HAYWARD (1844) - Ballotpedia

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JOHN L. MCCRACKEN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CHARLES HAYWARD

Term: 1844
Important Dates
Decided: March 9, 1844
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • James Moore Wayne
Concurring
John Catron

JOHN L. MCCRACKEN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CHARLES HAYWARD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 9, 1844.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: marital and family relationships and property, including obligation of child support
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Debtor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 43 U.S. 608
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: Henry Baldwin

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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