SAN FRANCISCO CITY AND COUNTY v. ITSELL (1890)

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SAN FRANCISCO CITY AND COUNTY v. ITSELL
Term: 1889
Important Dates
Decided: January 20, 1890
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller

SAN FRANCISCO CITY AND COUNTY v. ITSELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 1890.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
  • Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 133 U.S. 65
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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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