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WHARTON JONES, PLAINTIFF, v. JOHN VAN ZANDT (1847)

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WHARTON JONES, PLAINTIFF, v. JOHN VAN ZANDT
Term: 1847
Important Dates
Decided: March 5, 1847
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McKinley • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne • Levi Woodbury

WHARTON JONES, PLAINTIFF, v. JOHN VAN ZANDT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1847.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Slavery or indenture
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 46 U.S. 215
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Levi Woodbury

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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