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THE UNITED STATES VS. SAMUEL R. WOOD

Term: 1840
Important Dates
Argued: February 18, 1840
Decided: March 3, 1840
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-1
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Philip Pendelton Barbour • John Catron • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne
Dissenting
Smith Thompson

THE UNITED STATES VS. SAMUEL R. WOOD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1840. The case was argued before the court on February 18, 1840.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: perjury (other than as pertains to statutory construction of criminal laws: false statements)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 39 U.S. 430
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: James Moore Wayne

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 conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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