WITHENBURY v. UNITED STATES (1867)

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WITHENBURY v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1866
Important Dates
Argued: February 15, 1867
Decided: April 29, 1867
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
8-1
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford

WITHENBURY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 29, 1867. The case was argued before the court on February 15, 1867.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling. The case originated from the Illinois Southern U.S. District Court.

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: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 72 U.S. 819
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Salmon Portland Chase

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 liberal.

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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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