HENDRICKS v. UNITED STATES (1912)

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HENDRICKS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1911
Important Dates
Argued: January 25, 1912
Decided: February 19, 1912
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

HENDRICKS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1912. The case was argued before the court on January 25, 1912.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Oregon U.S. Circuit for the District of Oregon.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: perjury (other than as pertains to statutory construction of criminal laws: false statements)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 223 U.S. 178
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • 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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