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ARTHUR, COLLECTOR, v. FOX AND ANOTHER (1883)

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ARTHUR, COLLECTOR, v. FOX AND ANOTHER
Term: 1882
Important Dates
Decided: March 19, 1883
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

ARTHUR, COLLECTOR, v. FOX AND ANOTHER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 19, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
  • Petitioner: Customs Service or Commissioner of Customs
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 108 U.S. 125
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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