Your monthly support provides voters the knowledge they need to make confident decisions at the polls. Donate today.

CARROLL et al. v. UNITED STATES (1925)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
CARROLL et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1924
Important Dates
Argued: December 4, 1923
Decided: March 2, 1925
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Edward Terry Sanford • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
James Clark McReynolds • George Sutherland

CARROLL et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1925. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 1923.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Search and seizure, vehicles
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 267 U.S. 132
  • 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: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Howard Taft

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

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=CARROLL_et_al._v._UNITED_STATES_(1925)&oldid=9486851"