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SMALE v. MITCHELL (1892)

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SMALE v. MITCHELL
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1892
Decided: February 1, 1892
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

SMALE v. MITCHELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1892. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1892.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 143 U.S. 99
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: Stephen Johnson Field

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.

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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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