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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND v. THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS (1837)

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THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND v. THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS
Term: 1837
Important Dates
Argued: January 27, 1837
Decided: January 28, 1837
Vote
7-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Philip Pendelton Barbour • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND v. THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 28, 1837. The case was argued before the court on January 27, 1837.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 7-0 ruling.

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: Miscellaneous - Miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Rhode Island
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Massachusetts
  • Citation: 36 U.S. 226
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • 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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