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UNITED STATES v. SANGES (1892)

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UNITED STATES v. SANGES
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: January 12, 1892
Decided: April 4, 1892
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

UNITED STATES v. SANGES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 4, 1892. The case was argued before the court on January 12, 1892.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Georgia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Georgia.

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 - Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 144 U.S. 310
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • 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: Horace Gray

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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