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M'CLUNG v. SILLIMAN (1821)

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M'CLUNG v. SILLIMAN
Term: 1821
Important Dates
Argued: March 10, 1819
Decided: March 8, 1821
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Gabriel Duvall • William Johnson Jr. • Henry Brockholst Livingston • John Marshall • Joseph Story • Thomas Todd

M'CLUNG v. SILLIMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 8, 1821. The case was argued before the court on March 10, 1819.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1820s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 19 U.S. 598
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Johnson Jr.

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.

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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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