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DELAWARE INDIANS v. CHEROKEE NATION (1904)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
DELAWARE INDIANS v. CHEROKEE NATION
Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: December 1, 1903
Decided: February 23, 1904
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

DELAWARE INDIANS v. CHEROKEE NATION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1904. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 1903.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: Indian, including Indian tribe or nation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Indian, including Indian tribe or nation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 193 U.S. 127
  • 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: William Rufus Day

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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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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