Rides3 believes that only the final judgment statement is a binding holding of the court. He is wrong, but it is probably an honest error.
Like most positions of most birthers, it is difficult for me to consider it an honest error at this point, since the truth has been pointed out to him on numerous occasions.
Birthers seem to be, pretty much by definition, deaf to any truth they don't happen to like.
No, I believe what the Judge writing the Court's decision explicitly TELLS us, as should you...
"The evident intention, and the necessary effect, of the submission of this case to the decision of the court upon the facts agreed by the parties were to present for determination the single question stated at the beginning of this opinion, namely, whether a child born in the United States, of parent of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States. For the reasons above stated, this court is of opinion that the question must be answered in the affirmative.",/i>