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RODFORD v. CRAIG (1809)

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RODFORD v. CRAIG
Term: 1809
Important Dates
Decided: March 6, 1809
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Samuel Chase • William Cushing • William Johnson Jr. • Henry Brockholst Livingston • John Marshall • Thomas Todd • Bushrod Washington

RODFORD v. CRAIG is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1809.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1800s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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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: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 9 U.S. 289
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • 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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