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UNITED STATES v. TEXAS (1892)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
UNITED STATES v. TEXAS
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: December 9, 1891
Decided: February 29, 1892
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

UNITED STATES v. TEXAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 29, 1892. The case was argued before the court on December 9, 1891.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

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: Federalism - national supremacy: natural resources (cf. natural resources - environmental protection)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Texas
  • Citation: 143 U.S. 621
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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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