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LING SU FAN v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1910
Important Dates
Argued: October 27, 1910
Decided: November 14, 1910
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Edward Douglass White

LING SU FAN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 14, 1910. The case was argued before the court on October 27, 1910.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Philippines Territorial Supreme Court.

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

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: false statements (cf. statutory construction of criminal laws: perjury)
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 218 U.S. 302
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: Horace Harmon Lurton

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.

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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