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CLAWSON v. UNITED STATES (January 19, 1885)

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CLAWSON v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: January 5, 1885
Decided: January 19, 1885
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller

CLAWSON v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 19, 1885. The case was argued before the court on January 5, 1885.

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

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 113 U.S. 143
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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 conservative.

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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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