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RICE v. UNITED STATES (1887)

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RICE v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Decided: March 7, 1887
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

RICE v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 7, 1887.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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: Judicial Power - judicial administration: untimely filing
  • Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 122 U.S. 611
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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