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SPARF AND HANSEN v. UNITED STATES (1895)

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SPARF AND HANSEN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Decided: January 21, 1895
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-4
Majority
Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • George Shiras

SPARF AND HANSEN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 21, 1895.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

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: Criminal Procedure - Involuntary confession
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 156 U.S. 51
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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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