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In re YAMASHITA (1946)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
in re YAMASHITA
Term: 1945
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1946
Decided: February 4, 1946
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

in re YAMASHITA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 4, 1946. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1946.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Philippines Territorial Supreme Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 327 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of habeas corpus
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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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