EVANSVILLE v. DENNETT (1896)

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EVANSVILLE v. DENNETT
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Decided: March 2, 1896
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownStephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

EVANSVILLE v. DENNETT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1896.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question.

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: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Petitioner state: Indiana
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 161 U.S. 434
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: 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 conservative.

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