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WURTS v. HOAGLAND (1882)

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WURTS v. HOAGLAND
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Argued: April 24, 1882
Decided: May 8, 1882
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

WURTS v. HOAGLAND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 8, 1882. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1882.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New Jersey State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 105 U.S. 701
  • 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: Joseph Bradley

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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