Cases
Habeas petitions described a broad range of carceral, institutional, and interpersonal confinement over the long nineteenth century, including those used to demand due process, resist enslavement, challenge child removal and reservation confinement, avoid deportation, present child custody claims and protest child marriage, and to challenge institutionalization and detention in private and state institutions. As a legal mechanism borrowed from British common law and guaranteed as a civil right in US federal and state constitutions, habeas provides a lens on a diverse community of legal actors.
Our encoding practice allows us to identify petitions in these three categories and to indicate where those categories overlap. In addition to these three general categories, our team has identified the specific carceral charge being challenged as well as the particular forms of institutional and interpersonal confinements being questioned.
You may also browse or search petitions by location and/or jurisdiction to learn more about the myriad complaints petitioners brought before judges in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington between 1812 and 1924. Each case entry includes a full citation, a summary, links to people with a role in the case, a list of other people named, and any sites of significance. Visitors wanting access to full case files can contact the cited repository for information about obtaining copies. Those without institutional affiliations may request image scans from Dr. Jagodinsky directly. The Glossary defines the attributes used to structure data from the habeas petitions. The Code Book explains the relational structure of the data and functionality of the database website.
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- Act Of Congress Approved February 20th 1907 1
- Burton Vs Burton 1st Keyes 359 1
- De Bruler V Gallo 184 Fed 566 1
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- Ekin V United States 142 Us 650 1
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- Hopkins Vs Fachant 130 Fed 839 1
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- Immigration Act Of February 5 1917 1
- In Re Feinkod 47 Fed 447 1
- In Re Moola Singh 207 Fed 780 1
- In Re Nickola 184 Fed 322 1
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- In Re Unlawful Detention Of Mullah Singh And Seventytwo Other Hindu Aliens Case No 2352 1
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- Lee Moon Sing V United States 158 Us 528 Chin Yow V United States 208 Us 8 1
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- Ware V Wisnor Cc 50 Fed 301 Broadis V Broadis C C 86 Fed 951 1
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Download JSON Download CSVIn the matter of application of K. Gregory, et al. for a writ of habeas corpus
- Earliest record date: December 20, 1913
- Petition type(s): Carceral: immigration | Carceral: public charge
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Deported
In the matter of the application of Marie Robina Grayson for a writ of habeas corpus
- Earliest record date: March 14, 1912
- Petition type(s): Carceral: immigration | Carceral: prostitution
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
In the matter of the Application of Bartholomeo Massulo, for a writ of habeas corpus
- Earliest record date: November 8, 1917
- Petition type(s): Carceral: public charge | carceral: advocating or teaching anarchy | Carceral: immigration
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the Matter of the Application of Hosaye Sakaguchi, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: April 18, 1921
- Petition type(s): Carceral: immigration
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Order of discharge | exhibits withdrawn
In the Matter of the Application of Tsunetaro Machida, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: July 28, 1921
- Petition type(s): Carceral: immigration
- Petition outcome: Writ dismissed
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody | deported | exhibits withdrawn
