CHENEY BROTHERS COMPANY et al. v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (1918) - Ballotpedia

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CHENEY BROTHERS COMPANY et al. v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: April 20, 1916
Decided: March 4, 1918
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

CHENEY BROTHERS COMPANY et al. v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1918. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1916.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts State Supreme Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Massachusetts
Citation: 246 U.S. 147
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: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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 conservative.

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External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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