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BREESE AND DICKERSON v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1912
Important Dates
Argued: October 15, 1912
Decided: October 28, 1912
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

BREESE AND DICKERSON v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 28, 1912. The case was argued before the court on October 15, 1912.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the North Carolina Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: miscellaneous
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 226 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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