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SILVER KING COALITION MINES COMPANY v. CONKLING MINING COMPANY (April 11, 1921)

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SILVER KING COALITION MINES COMPANY v. CONKLING MINING COMPANY
Term: 1920
Important Dates
Decided: April 11, 1921
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

SILVER KING COALITION MINES COMPANY v. CONKLING MINING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 11, 1921.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Utah U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
  • Petitioner: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 256 U.S. 18
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 unspecifiable.

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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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