THE STATE OF MARYLAND v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA (1912)

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THE STATE OF MARYLAND v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1911
Important Dates
Decided: May 27, 1912
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

THE STATE OF MARYLAND v. STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1912.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Maryland
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: West Virginia
  • Citation: 225 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Decrees
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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