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DARR v. BURFORD, WARDEN (1950)

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DARR v. BURFORD, WARDEN
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1949
Decided: April 3, 1950
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Harold Burton • Tom Clark
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

DARR v. BURFORD, WARDEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 3, 1950. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1949.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oklahoma Oklahoma Eastern 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 Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity: habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Oklahoma
  • Citation: 339 U.S. 200
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Reed

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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