DUNLAP v. UNITED STATES (1899)

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DUNLAP v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: November 29, 1898
Decided: February 20, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

DUNLAP v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1899. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 1898.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
  • Petitioner: Manufacturer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 173 U.S. 65
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

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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