SOUTHWORTH v. UNITED STATES (1896)

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SOUTHWORTH v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: March 3, 1896
Decided: March 23, 1896
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras

SOUTHWORTH v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 23, 1896. The case was argued before the court on March 3, 1896.

In an 8-0 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 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: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 161 U.S. 639
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: David Josiah Brewer

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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