PLINY CUTLER, APPELLANT, v. WILLIAM A. RAE (1849) - Ballotpedia

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PLINY CUTLER, APPELLANT, v. WILLIAM A. RAE

Term: 1849
Important Dates
Decided: March 2, 1849
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McKinley • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne • Levi Woodbury

PLINY CUTLER, APPELLANT, v. WILLIAM A. RAE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1849.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 48 U.S. 729
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: Roger Brooke Taney

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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