UNITED STATES v. MIDWEST OIL COMPANY (1915)

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UNITED STATES v. MIDWEST OIL COMPANY
Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1914
Decided: February 23, 1915
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Mahlon Pitney • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter

UNITED STATES v. MIDWEST OIL COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1915. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1914.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Wyoming U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Miscellaneous - executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Oil company, or natural gas producer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 236 U.S. 459
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph Rucker Lamar

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 liberal.

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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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