THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT (1867)

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THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT
Term: 1866
Important Dates
Argued: April 12, 1867
Decided: April 15, 1867
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • James Moore Wayne

THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI v. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 15, 1867. The case was argued before the court on April 12, 1867.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Miscellaneous - executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Mississippi
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 71 U.S. 475
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Injunction
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Salmon Portland Chase

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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