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BONAPARTE v. TAX COURT (1882)

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BONAPARTE v. TAX COURT
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Decided: January 16, 1882
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

BONAPARTE v. TAX COURT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 16, 1882.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maryland State Trial Court.

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: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
  • Petitioner state: Maryland
  • Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Respondent state: Maryland
  • Citation: 104 U.S. 592
  • 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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