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RODGERS v. UNITED STATES (1947)

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RODGERS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: October 16, 1947
Decided: November 10, 1947
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Wiley Rutledge

RODGERS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 10, 1947. The case was argued before the court on October 16, 1947.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
  • Petitioner: Farmer, farm worker, or farm organization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 332 U.S. 371
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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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