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UNITED STATES v. HARTWELL (1868)

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UNITED STATES v. HARTWELL
Term: 1867
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1868
Decided: February 24, 1868
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
5-3
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller

UNITED STATES v. HARTWELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1868. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1868.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

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: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 73 U.S. 385
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: Noah Haynes Swayne

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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