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UNITED STATES v. PRIDGEON (1894)

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UNITED STATES v. PRIDGEON
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: April 16, 1894
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. PRIDGEON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 16, 1894.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 153 U.S. 48
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: Howell Edmunds Jackson

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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