PLEASANTS v. GREENHOW, TREASURER (1885) - Ballotpedia

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PLEASANTS v. GREENHOW, TREASURER

Term: 1884
Important Dates
Decided: April 20, 1885
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • William Burnham Woods
Concurring
Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

PLEASANTS v. GREENHOW, TREASURER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1885.

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

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: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
Petitioner state: Virginia
Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
Respondent state: Virginia
Citation: 114 U.S. 323
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 conservative.

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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