Ashby v White
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Ashby v White is a landmark 1703 English tort law case establishing that the wrongful denial of a legal right, such as the right to vote, is actionable even without proof of specific damage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ashby v White canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19708475 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashby v White Context triple: [Sir John Holt, notableCase, Ashby v White]
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A.
Cooley v. Board of Wardens
Cooley v. Board of Wardens is an 1852 U.S. Supreme Court decision that helped define the scope of the Commerce Clause by allowing states to regulate certain local aspects of commerce, such as port pilotage, without violating federal authority.
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B.
Whitley v. Albers
Whitley v. Albers is a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set the standard for evaluating prison officials’ use of force under the Eighth Amendment, focusing on whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.
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C.
Shaw v. Hunt
Shaw v. Hunt is a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court case that further developed the Court’s racial gerrymandering jurisprudence by applying and extending the principles first articulated in Shaw v. Reno.
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D.
Downes v. Bidwell
Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
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E.
Brewer v. Williams
Brewer v. Williams is a landmark 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified Sixth Amendment right-to-counsel protections during police interrogations, particularly regarding the admissibility of statements deliberately elicited from an indicted defendant in the absence of counsel.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ashby v White Target entity description: Ashby v White is a landmark 1703 English tort law case establishing that the wrongful denial of a legal right, such as the right to vote, is actionable even without proof of specific damage.
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A.
Cooley v. Board of Wardens
Cooley v. Board of Wardens is an 1852 U.S. Supreme Court decision that helped define the scope of the Commerce Clause by allowing states to regulate certain local aspects of commerce, such as port pilotage, without violating federal authority.
-
B.
Whitley v. Albers
Whitley v. Albers is a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set the standard for evaluating prison officials’ use of force under the Eighth Amendment, focusing on whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.
-
C.
Shaw v. Hunt
Shaw v. Hunt is a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court case that further developed the Court’s racial gerrymandering jurisprudence by applying and extending the principles first articulated in Shaw v. Reno.
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D.
Downes v. Bidwell
Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
-
E.
Brewer v. Williams
Brewer v. Williams is a landmark 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified Sixth Amendment right-to-counsel protections during police interrogations, particularly regarding the admissibility of statements deliberately elicited from an indicted defendant in the absence of counsel.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.