GEER v. CONNECTICUT (1896)

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GEER v. CONNECTICUT
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: November 22, 1895
Decided: March 2, 1896
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan

GEER v. CONNECTICUT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1896. The case was argued before the court on November 22, 1895.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Connecticut
  • Citation: 161 U.S. 519
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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.

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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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