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GREEN v. UNITED STATES (1961)

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GREEN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1960
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1961
Decided: February 27, 1961
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
Felix Frankfurter
Majority
Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker
Concurring
Potter Stewart
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Earl Warren

GREEN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1961. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1961.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 365 U.S. 301
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter

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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