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REEVES v. BEARDALL, EXECUTOR (1942)

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REEVES v. BEARDALL, EXECUTOR
Term: 1941
Important Dates
Decided: May 11, 1942
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • James Byrnes • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

REEVES v. BEARDALL, EXECUTOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 11, 1942.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 316 U.S. 283
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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 liberal.

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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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