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MERCER COUNTY v. HACKET

Term: 1863
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1864
Decided: January 18, 1864
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-1
Majority
John Catron • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Samuel Freeman Miller

MERCER COUNTY v. HACKET is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 18, 1864. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1864.

In a 9-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: Pennsylvania
Respondent type: Investor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 68 U.S. 83
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: Robert Cooper Grier

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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