WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES. (1897)

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WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES.
Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: October 27, 1897
Decided: November 29, 1897
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Henry Billings Brown

WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 29, 1897. The case was argued before the court on October 27, 1897.

In an 8-0 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 California Northern U.S. District Court.

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: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
  • Petitioner: Defendant
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 168 U.S. 382
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • 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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