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BIHN v. UNITED STATES (1946)

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BIHN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1945
Important Dates
Argued: March 26, 1946
Decided: June 10, 1946
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
4-3
Majority
William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Stanley Reed

BIHN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1946. The case was argued before the court on March 26, 1946.

In a 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Extra-legal jury influences: jury instructions (not necessarily in criminal cases)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 328 U.S. 633
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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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