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SCOTLAND COUNTY v. HILL

Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1884
Decided: November 10, 1884
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

SCOTLAND COUNTY v. HILL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 10, 1884. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1884.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Missouri.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: Missouri
Respondent type: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
Respondent state: Missouri
Citation: 112 U.S. 183
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: Morrison Waite

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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