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SIMMS v. SIMMS (1899)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
SIMMS v. SIMMS
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Decided: November 20, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras
Dissenting
Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

SIMMS v. SIMMS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 20, 1899.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona Territorial Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
  • Petitioner: Husband, or ex-husband
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Wife, or ex-wife
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 175 U.S. 162
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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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