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JOHANNESSEN v. UNITED STATES (1912)

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JOHANNESSEN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1911
Important Dates
Decided: May 27, 1912
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

JOHANNESSEN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1912.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

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: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: loss of citizenship, denaturalization
  • Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 225 U.S. 227
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Mahlon Pitney

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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