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TENNESSEE v. VIRGINIA (1900)

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TENNESSEE v. VIRGINIA
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Decided: April 30, 1900
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

TENNESSEE v. VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 30, 1900.

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

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: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Tennessee
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Virginia
  • Citation: 177 U.S. 501
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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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