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LEWIS v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: October 28, 1892
Decided: December 5, 1892
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • George Shiras
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown

LEWIS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 5, 1892. The case was argued before the court on October 28, 1892.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Arkansas.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Confrontation (right to confront accuser, call and cross-examine witnesses)
Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 146 U.S. 370
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: George Shiras

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.

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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