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GREER v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: January 18, 1918
Decided: January 28, 1918
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

GREER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 28, 1918. The case was argued before the court on January 18, 1918.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oklahoma Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 245 U.S. 559
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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