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MARKET COMPANY v. HOFFMAN (1879)

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MARKET COMPANY v. HOFFMAN
Term: 1879
Important Dates
Argued: October 31, 1879
Decided: November 17, 1879
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan

MARKET COMPANY v. HOFFMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 17, 1879. The case was argued before the court on October 31, 1879.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 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 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: Civil Rights - Debtors' rights
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Holder of a license or permit, or applicant therefor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 101 U.S. 112
  • 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 conservative.

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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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