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UNITED STATES v. RICKERT (1903)

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UNITED STATES v. RICKERT
Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: January 28, 1903
Decided: February 23, 1903
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. RICKERT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1903. The case was argued before the court on January 28, 1903.

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

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians, state jurisdiction over
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: South Dakota
  • Citation: 188 U.S. 432
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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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