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ELK v. WILKINS (1884)

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ELK v. WILKINS
Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: April 28, 1884
Decided: November 3, 1884
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • William Burnham Woods

ELK v. WILKINS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 3, 1884. The case was argued before the court on April 28, 1884.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Nebraska U.S. Circuit for the District of Nebraska.

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: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: Indian, including Indian tribe or nation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Nebraska
  • Citation: 112 U.S. 94
  • 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: Horace Gray

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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