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WADE v. MAYO, STATE PRISON CUSTODIAN (1948)

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WADE v. MAYO, STATE PRISON CUSTODIAN
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: October 13, 1947
Decided: June 14, 1948
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

WADE v. MAYO, STATE PRISON CUSTODIAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 14, 1948. The case was argued before the court on October 13, 1947.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity: habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Florida
  • Citation: 334 U.S. 672
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Frank Murphy

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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