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KILBOURN v. SUNDERLAND. (1889)

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KILBOURN v. SUNDERLAND.
Term: 1888
Important Dates
Argued: March 7, 1889
Decided: April 22, 1889
Outcome
Affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part
Vote
7-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field

KILBOURN v. SUNDERLAND. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 22, 1889. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1889.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Realtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Buyer, purchaser
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 130 U.S. 505
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

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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