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CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND KANSAS CITY RAILROAD v. GUFFEY (1887)

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CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND KANSAS CITY RAILROAD v. GUFFEY
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Decided: May 23, 1887
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND KANSAS CITY RAILROAD v. GUFFEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 23, 1887.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

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: Missouri
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Missouri
  • Citation: 122 U.S. 561
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

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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