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NATIONAL BANK v. MATTHEWS (1879)

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NATIONAL BANK v. MATTHEWS
Term: 1878
Important Dates
Argued: January 16, 1879
Decided: January 27, 1879
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Samuel Freeman Miller

NATIONAL BANK v. MATTHEWS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 27, 1879. The case was argued before the court on January 16, 1879.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri State Trial Court.

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: Judicial Power - judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata
  • Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Debtor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 98 U.S. 621
  • 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: Noah Haynes Swayne

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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