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SHAPIRO v. UNITED STATES (1948)

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SHAPIRO v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: October 23, 1947
Decided: June 21, 1948
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

SHAPIRO v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 21, 1948. The case was argued before the court on October 23, 1947.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York New York Southern 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 - Self-incrimination, immunity from prosecution
  • Petitioner: Witness, or person under subpoena
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 335 U.S. 1
  • 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: Frederick Vinson

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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