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BLAKE v. NATIONAL BANKS (1875)

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BLAKE v. NATIONAL BANKS
Term: 1874
Important Dates
Argued: February 19, 1875
Decided: March 22, 1875
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • David Davis • William Strong

BLAKE v. NATIONAL BANKS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 22, 1875. The case was argued before the court on February 19, 1875.

In a 6-3 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 1870s, 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, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: Internal Revenue Service, Collector, Commissioner, or District Director of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 90 U.S. 307
  • 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: Ward Hunt

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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