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UTLEY v. DONALDSO (1877)

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UTLEY v. DONALDSO
Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: December 22, 1876
Decided: January 15, 1877
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford • Ward Hunt • William Strong

UTLEY v. DONALDSO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 15, 1877. The case was argued before the court on December 22, 1876.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Missouri.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, 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: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 94 U.S. 29
  • 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: 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 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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