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VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA (1871)

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VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1870
Important Dates
Argued: February 13, 1871
Decided: March 6, 1871
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
4-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field

VIRGINIA v. WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1871. The case was argued before the court on February 13, 1871.

In a 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Virginia
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: West Virginia
  • Citation: 78 U.S. 39
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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