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CHEW HEONG v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: October 30, 1884
Decided: December 8, 1884
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field

CHEW HEONG v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 8, 1884. The case was argued before the court on October 30, 1884.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: permanent residence
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 112 U.S. 536
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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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