Chisholm v. Georgia

Chisholm v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 5, 1793 Decided February 18, 1793
Full case name	Alexander Chisholm, Executors v. Georgia
Citations	2 U.S. 419 (more) 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419; 1 L. Ed. 440; 1793 U.S. LEXIS 249
Prior history	Original action filed, U.S. Supreme Court, August, 1792
Subsequent history	None on record
Holding
Article III, Section 2's grant of federal jurisdiction over suits "between a State and Citizens of another State" abrogated the States' sovereign immunity and granted federal courts the affirmative power to hear disputes between private citizens and States.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Jay Associate Justices James Wilson · William Cushing John Blair · James Iredell
Case opinions
Seriatim opinion	Cushing
Seriatim opinion	Blair
Seriatim opinion	Wilson
Seriatim opinion	Jay
Dissent	Iredell
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. III; Judiciary Act of 1789
Superseded by
U.S. Const. amend. XI

Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. 419 (1793), is considered the first great decision by the United States Supreme Court.^[1] Given its early date, there was little available legal precedent in American law.^[2] It was almost immediately superseded by the Eleventh Amendment.^[3]

1. ↑ Randy E. Barnet (2007). "The People or the State?: Chisholm v. Georgia and Popular Sovereignty". Georgetown University Law Center. Retrieved 1 March 2016., p. 1729
2. ↑ 2 U.S. 419 (Full text of the decision at Findlaw.com)
3. ↑ "Annotation 1 - Eleventh Amendment". FindLaw. Retrieved 1 March 2016.