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SOUTH CAROLINA v. UNITED STATES (1905)

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SOUTH CAROLINA v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1905
Important Dates
Argued: November 5, 1904
Decided: December 4, 1905
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

SOUTH CAROLINA v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1905. The case was argued before the court on November 5, 1904.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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: Federalism - national supremacy: commodities
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: South Carolina
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 199 U.S. 437
  • 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: David Josiah Brewer

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 liberal.

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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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