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WOODWORTH v. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (1902)

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WOODWORTH v. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: April 16, 1902
Decided: May 5, 1902
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-0
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

WOODWORTH v. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 5, 1902. The case was argued before the court on April 16, 1902.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Debtors' rights
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 185 U.S. 354
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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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