O'NEIL v. VERMONT (1892)

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O'NEIL v. VERMONT
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1892
Decided: April 4, 1892
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan

O'NEIL v. VERMONT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 4, 1892. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1892.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Vermont State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
  • Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Vermont
  • Citation: 144 U.S. 323
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Blatchford

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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