Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that: * A pardoned person must introduce the pardon into court proceedings, otherwise the pardon must be disregarded by the court. * To do that, the pardoned person must accept the pardon. If a pardon is rejected, it cannot be forced upon its subject. United States v. Wilson (1833) established that it is possible to reject a (conditional) pardon, even for a capital sentence. Burdick affirmed that the same principle extends to unconditional pardons.