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STOFFELA v. NUGENT (1910)

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STOFFELA v. NUGENT
Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: April 28, 1910
Decided: May 16, 1910
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

STOFFELA v. NUGENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1910. The case was argued before the court on April 28, 1910.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona Territorial Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, 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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Buyer, purchaser
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 217 U.S. 499
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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