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POLLARD v. VINTON (1882)

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POLLARD v. VINTON
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Argued: December 21, 1881
Decided: March 20, 1882
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

POLLARD v. VINTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 20, 1882. The case was argued before the court on December 21, 1881.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

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: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Management, executive officer, or director, of business entity
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 105 U.S. 7
  • 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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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