UNITED STATES v. RODGERS (1893)

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UNITED STATES v. RODGERS
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: November 20, 1893
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray

UNITED STATES v. RODGERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 20, 1893.

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

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: Judicial Power - Miscellaneous judicial power, especially diversity jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 150 U.S. 249
  • 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: Stephen Johnson Field

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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