Pennsylvania v. Quicksilver Company
Supreme Court of the United States
On motion to dismiss an original writ: The first clause of the second section of the third article of the Constitution ordains that the judicial power shall extend to certain cases named, and among them “ to controversies between a State and the citizens of another State.”
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On motion to dismiss an original writ: The first clause of the second section of the third article of the Constitution ordains that the judicial power shall extend to certain cases named, and among them “ to controversies between a State and the citizens of another State.” The second clause of this same section provides: “ That in all cases affecting ambassadors, &e., and those in which a State shall be a party, th.e Supreme Court shall Lavé' original jurisdiction,” and that “ in all the other cases before mentioned it shall have appellate jurisdiction.” The 13th section of the Judiciary Act…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
By the second section of the third article of the Constitu-' tion it is ordained that the judicial power shall extend “to all controversies between a State and the citizens of another State.” The second clause of this section provides “that in all cases affecting ambassadors, &c., and those in which a State shall be a. party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. . . In all other cases before mentioned it shall have appellate jurisdiction.”
This second clause distributes the jurisdiction conferred upon the Supreme Court in the previous one into original and appellate…
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