UNITED STATES ex rel. WEST v. HITCHCOCK (1907)

UNITED STATES ex rel. WEST v. HITCHCOCK
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: January 30, 1907
	Decided: March 4, 1907
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES ex rel. WEST v. HITCHCOCK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1907. The case was argued before the court on January 30, 1907.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

^[1]

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Judicial review of administrative agency's or administrative official's actions and procedures
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 205 U.S. 80
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.