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MARSHALL v. UNITED STATES (November 19, 1888)

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MARSHALL v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1888
Important Dates
Argued: November 1, 1888
Decided: November 19, 1888
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

MARSHALL v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 19, 1888. The case was argued before the court on November 1, 1888.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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: Civil Rights - military: veteran
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 131 U.S. 391
  • 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 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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