UNITED STATES et al., APPELLANTS, v. WILLIAM B. KIRK (1907)

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UNITED STATES et al., APPELLANTS, v. WILLIAM B. KIRK
Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: January 25, 1907
Decided: February 25, 1907
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES et al., APPELLANTS, v. WILLIAM B. KIRK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1907. The case was argued before the court on January 25, 1907.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: -
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 204 U.S. 668
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • 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.

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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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