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MITCHELL v. UNITED STATES (1962)

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MITCHELL v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1961
Important Dates
Decided: January 22, 1962
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker
Dissenting
Tom Clark • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart

MITCHELL v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 22, 1962.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, 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 - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 368 U.S. 439
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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