United States v. Wong Kim Ark

United States v. Wong Kim Ark
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 5, 8, 1897 Decided March 28, 1898
Full case name	United States v. Wong Kim Ark
Citations	169 U.S. 649 (more) 18 S.Ct. 456; 42 L.Ed. 890
Prior history	Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California; 71 F. 382
Holding
Children born in the United States of foreigners permanently domiciled and resident in the U.S. at the time of birth automatically acquire U.S. citizenship via the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · Horace Gray David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown George Shiras, Jr. · Edward D. White Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna
Case opinions
Majority	Gray, joined by Brewer, Brown, Shiras, White, Peckham
Dissent	Fuller, joined by Harlan
McKenna took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

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United States v. Wong Kim Ark

United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a child born in the United States to parents of Chinese descent automatically becomes a U.S. citizen by birth based on the Citizenship Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.^[1]

1. ↑ "United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)". Constitutional Rights Foundation. Retrieved 15 April 2016.