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SMITH v. INDIANA (1903)

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SMITH v. INDIANA
Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: October 22, 1903
Decided: November 16, 1903
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

SMITH v. INDIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 16, 1903. The case was argued before the court on October 22, 1903.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Indiana State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, 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 - Standing to sue: personal injury
  • Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Petitioner state: Indiana
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Indiana
  • Citation: 191 U.S. 138
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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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