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NATIONAL BANK v. WATSONTOWN BANK (1882)

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NATIONAL BANK v. WATSONTOWN BANK
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Argued: March 22, 1882
Decided: April 3, 1882
Outcome
Reversed
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

NATIONAL BANK v. WATSONTOWN BANK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 3, 1882. The case was argued before the court on March 22, 1882.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 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 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 105 U.S. 217
  • 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: Stanley Matthews

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.

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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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