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SOUTH DAKOTA v. NORTH CAROLINA (1904)

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SOUTH DAKOTA v. NORTH CAROLINA
Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: April 13, 1903
Decided: February 1, 1904
Vote
5-4
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownJohn Marshall HarlanOliver Wendell HolmesRufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
William Rufus DayMelville Weston FullerJoseph McKennaEdward Douglass White

SOUTH DAKOTA v. NORTH CAROLINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1904. The case was argued before the court on April 13, 1903.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 5-4 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Non-real property dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: South Dakota
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: North Carolina
  • Citation: 192 U.S. 286
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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 unspecifiable.

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