Everything you need to know about ranked-choice voting in one spot. Click to learn more!

WINCHESTER v. JACKSON AND OTHERS (1806)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
WINCHESTER v. JACKSON AND OTHERS
Term: 1806
Important Dates
Decided: February 17, 1806
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
5-0
Majority
William Cushing • William Johnson Jr. • John Marshall • William Paterson • Bushrod Washington

WINCHESTER v. JACKSON AND OTHERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 17, 1806.

In a 5-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1800s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of jurisdiction (cf. judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal from federal district courts or courts of appeals)
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 7 U.S. 514
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=WINCHESTER_v._JACKSON_AND_OTHERS_(1806)&oldid=9512778"