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PRONOVOST v. UNITED STATES (1914)

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PRONOVOST v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1913
Important Dates
Decided: February 24, 1914
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

PRONOVOST v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1914.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Montana U.S. District Court.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 232 U.S. 487
  • 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: Willis Van Devanter

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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