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MILLER v. UNITED STATES (1958)

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MILLER v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: January 28, 1958
Decided: June 23, 1958
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker
Concurring
John Harlan II
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Tom Clark

MILLER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 23, 1958. The case was argued before the court on January 28, 1958.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - search and seizure (other than as pertains to vehicles or Crime Control Act)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 357 U.S. 301
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Brennan

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.

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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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