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UNITED STATES v. RICHARD WILSON (1992)

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UNITED STATES v. RICHARD WILSON
Term: 1991
Important Dates
Argued: January 15, 1992
Decided: March 24, 1992
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens • Byron White

UNITED STATES v. RICHARD WILSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 1992. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1992.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1990s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Rehnquist Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 503 U.S. 329
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Clarence Thomas

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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