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KETCHUM v. DUNCAN (1878)

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KETCHUM v. DUNCAN
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 1878
Decided: May 13, 1878
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • William Strong • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne

KETCHUM v. DUNCAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1878. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 1878.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alabama U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Alabama.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 96 U.S. 659
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Strong

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 unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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