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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND VS. THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS (1839)

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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND VS. THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS
Term: 1839
Important Dates
Decided: January 26, 1839
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Philip Pendelton Barbour • John Catron • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND VS. THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 26, 1839.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Boundary dispute between states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Rhode Island
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Massachusetts
  • Citation: 38 U.S. 23
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Roger Brooke Taney

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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