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UNITED STATES v. DASHIEL (April 3, 1866)

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UNITED STATES v. DASHIEL
Term: 1865
Important Dates
Argued: March 16, 1866
Decided: April 3, 1866
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne

UNITED STATES v. DASHIEL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 3, 1866. The case was argued before the court on March 16, 1866.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person who guarantees another's obligations
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 70 U.S. 688
  • 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: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Nathan Clifford

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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