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SIMMONS v. SWAN (1927)

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SIMMONS v. SWAN
Term: 1927
Important Dates
Argued: October 24, 1927
Decided: November 21, 1927
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

SIMMONS v. SWAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 21, 1927. The case was argued before the court on October 24, 1927.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts 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 Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Seller or vendor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 275 U.S. 113
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • 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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