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BATCHELOR v. UNITED STATES (1895)

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BATCHELOR v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Argued: January 23, 1895
Decided: March 4, 1895
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

BATCHELOR v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1895. The case was argued before the court on January 23, 1895.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Montana U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Montana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 156 U.S. 426
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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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