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Oliver Booth Dickinson

Oliver Booth Dickinson

Pennsylvania Eastern District Court

Born 1857 in Dayton, OH

Died 1939

FJC ID: 616

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 21/year

Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 1914–1939191419201940196019802001210
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 15/year

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citing decisions

Pennsylvania Eastern District Court · 1914–1939

Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.

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Oliver Booth Dickinson (September 25, 1857 – September 16, 1939) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Private practice, Chester, Pennsylvania
    1878–1914

Appointments

  1. Pennsylvania Eastern District Court
    1914–1939 · Appointed by Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. Bucknell University
    A.M. · 1903
  2. Read law
    1878
  3. Bucknell University
    1877