WIGHT v. DAVIDSON (1901)

WIGHT v. DAVIDSON
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: October 26, 1900
	Decided: April 29, 1901
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

WIGHT v. DAVIDSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 29, 1901. The case was argued before the court on October 26, 1900.

In a 6-3 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 Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - due process: hearing or notice (other than as pertains to government employees or prisoners' rights)
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 181 U.S. 371
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: George Shiras

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.