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WILLIAM BREWSTER, APPELLANT, v. WILLIAM WAKEFIELD (1860)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
WILLIAM BREWSTER, APPELLANT, v. WILLIAM WAKEFIELD
Term: 1859
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 1859
Decided: February 20, 1860
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Archibald Campbell • John Catron • Nathan Clifford • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

WILLIAM BREWSTER, APPELLANT, v. WILLIAM WAKEFIELD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1860. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 1859.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota Territorial Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1850s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 63 U.S. 118
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Roger Brooke Taney

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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