Your monthly support provides voters the knowledge they need to make confident decisions at the polls. Donate today.

UNITED STATES v. SMITH (1952)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
UNITED STATES v. SMITH
Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: December 4, 1951
Decided: January 7, 1952
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Tom Clark
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed

UNITED STATES v. SMITH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1952. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 1951.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Colorado Colorado U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: timeliness
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 342 U.S. 225
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=UNITED_STATES_v._SMITH_(1952)&oldid=9510903"