WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

Citation

327 U.S. 711 (1945)

Decision : 8-0

Justices Participating

• Harlan Stone | voted with majority or plurality

• Hugo Black | voted with majority or plurality

• Stanley Reed | voted with majority or plurality

• Felix Frankfurter | voted with majority or plurality

• William Douglas | voted with majority or plurality

• Francis Murphy | voted with majority or plurality

• Robert Jackson | did not vote

• Wiley Rutledge | regular concurrence

• Harold Burton | voted with majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

Categories

• Criminal jurisdiction
• General Crimes Act
• Indian Country

Cited Cases

• 302 U.S. 535 (1937), UNITED STATES v. MCGOWAN et al.
• 118 U.S. 375 (1885), UNITED STATES v. KAGAMA & ANOTHER, INDIANS
• 290 U.S. 357 (1933), UNITED STATES v. CHAVEZ et al.
• 326 U.S. 496 (1945), NEW YORK EX REL. RAY v. MARTIN, WARDEN
• 109 U.S. 556 (1883), ex parte CROW DOG
• 104 U.S. 621 (1881), UNITED STATES v. MCBRATNEY
• 228 U.S. 243 (1912), DONNELLY v. UNITED STATES
• 232 U.S. 442 (1913), UNITED STATES v. PELICAN
• 271 U.S. 467 (1925), UNITED STATES v. RAMSEY et al.
• 164 U.S. 240 (1896), DRAPER v. UNITED STATES

Case Cited In

• 358 U.S. 217 (1958), WILLIAMS et ux. v. LEE, DOING BUSINESS AS GANADO TRADING POST
• 411 U.S. 164 (1972), MCCLANAHAN v. ARIZONA STATE TAX COMMISSION
• 597 U.S. 629 (2021), OKLAHOMA v. CASTRO-HUERTA