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WONG WING v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: April 1, 1896
Decided: May 18, 1896
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Stephen Johnson Field

WONG WING v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1896. The case was argued before the court on April 1, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Michigan.

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.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Jury trial (right to, as distinct from extra-legal jury influences)
Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 163 U.S. 228
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 liberal.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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