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STEVENSON v. BARBOUR (1891)
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| STEVENSON v. BARBOUR |
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| Term: 1890 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: April 14, 1891 |
| Decided: April 20, 1891 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 9-0 |
| Majority |
| Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar |
STEVENSON v. BARBOUR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1891. The case was argued before the court on April 14, 1891.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.
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.
About the case
- Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision
- Petitioner: Private person
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 140 U.S. 48
- How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
- What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown
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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