MULLEN v. SIMMONS, SHERIFF OF JOHNSTON COUNTY (1914) - Ballotpedia

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MULLEN v. SIMMONS, SHERIFF OF JOHNSTON COUNTY

Term: 1913
Important Dates
Decided: June 8, 1914
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-1
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
William Rufus Day

MULLEN v. SIMMONS, SHERIFF OF JOHNSTON COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 8, 1914.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Oklahoma State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians, state jurisdiction over
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Oklahoma
Citation: 234 U.S. 192
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: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna

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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