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MORRILL v. JONES

Term: 1882
Important Dates
Argued: January 3, 1883
Decided: January 8, 1883
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

MORRILL v. JONES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1883. The case was argued before the court on January 3, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maine U.S. Circuit for the District of Maine.

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

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
Petitioner: Customs Service or Commissioner of Customs
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 106 U.S. 466
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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.

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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