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SPRING COMPANY v. KNOWLTON (1881)

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SPRING COMPANY v. KNOWLTON
Term: 1880
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1881
Decided: January 31, 1881
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

SPRING COMPANY v. KNOWLTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 1881. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1881.

In a 5-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 103 U.S. 49
  • 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: William Burnham Woods

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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