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ILLINOIS v. SOMERVILLE (1973)

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ILLINOIS v. SOMERVILLE
Term: 1972
Important Dates
Argued: November 13, 1972
Decided: February 27, 1973
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
William Brennan • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall • Byron White

ILLINOIS v. SOMERVILLE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1973. The case was argued before the court on November 13, 1972.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Double jeopardy
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Illinois
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 410 U.S. 458
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

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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