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PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. v. TEXACO INC. (1974)

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PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. v. TEXACO INC.
Term: 1973
Important Dates
Decided: February 19, 1974
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Thurgood Marshall • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart
Dissenting
William Brennan • William Douglas

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. v. TEXACO INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1974.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oklahoma Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1970s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Burger Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: federal question (cf. no merits: dismissed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question)
  • Petitioner: Oil company, or natural gas producer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Oil company, or natural gas producer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 415 U.S. 125
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
  • 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 conservative.

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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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