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STATE OF MISSOURI v. STATE OF KANSAS (1909)

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STATE OF MISSOURI v. STATE OF KANSAS
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 1909
Decided: March 22, 1909
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

STATE OF MISSOURI v. STATE OF KANSAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 22, 1909. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 1909.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

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: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Missouri
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Kansas
  • Citation: 213 U.S. 78
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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