WARD v. RACE HORSE (1896)

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WARD v. RACE HORSE
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: March 11, 1896
Decided: May 25, 1896
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-1
Majority
Stephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown

WARD v. RACE HORSE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 25, 1896. The case was argued before the court on March 11, 1896.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Wyoming U.S. Circuit for the District of Wyoming.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Petitioner state: Wyoming
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 163 U.S. 504
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Edward Douglass White

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 conservative.

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