ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. OHIO STATE AUDITOR (March 15, 1897)

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ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. OHIO STATE AUDITOR
Term: 1896
Important Dates
Decided: March 15, 1897
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. OHIO STATE AUDITOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 15, 1897.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Ohio U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Ohio.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Ohio
  • Citation: 166 U.S. 185
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Rehearing or restored to calendar for reargument
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: David Josiah Brewer

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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