GORDON et al. v. UNITED STATES (1954)

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GORDON et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1953
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1954
Decided: February 8, 1954
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

GORDON et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 8, 1954. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1954.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: confession of error
  • Petitioner: Seller or vendor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 347 U.S. 909
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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