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United States v. Jones

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ7893352 ↗
Source-derived summary

United States v. Jones may refer to several Supreme Court cases:

United States v. Jones, 109 U.S. 513 (1883), a case in which the Court outlined the requirements of the United States government when instituting the right of eminent domain

United States v. Jones, 119 U.S. 477 (1886)

United States v. Jones, 121 U.S. 89 (1887)

United States v. Jones, 131 U.S. 1 (1889)

United States v. Jones, 134 U.S. 483 (1890)

United States v. Jones, 147 U.S. 672 (1893)

United States v. Jones, 149 U.S. 262 (1893)

United States v. Jones, 193 U.S. 528 (1904)

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “United States v. Jones” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through United, States and Jones, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1883, 1886, 1887, 1889—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, United, States and Jones is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7893352. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1883, 1886, 1887 and 1889.

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This entry incorporates text from “United States v. Jones” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.