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UNITED STATES v. BROWN (1948)

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UNITED STATES v. BROWN
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: January 5, 1948
Decided: February 2, 1948
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

UNITED STATES v. BROWN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 2, 1948. The case was argued before the court on January 5, 1948.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri Missouri Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: escape from custody
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Prisoner, inmate of penal institution
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 333 U.S. 18
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Wiley Rutledge

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.

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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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