Exparte Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1840
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025
3 state decisions
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Relies on Commonwealth v. Green
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“to say, that, on an examination of this casé, as decided by the Supreme Court of the the United States, they think, if the return had been as it now is, a majority of that court Avould have decided that' Holmes was entitled to his discharge, and that, thn opinion of 4 majority pf the Supreme Court of the United States was also adverse to the exercise of the power in question by any of the separate States of the Union. The judg-' ..ment of the court therefore is, that Holmes be discharged from his imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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