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FARRINGTON v. TENNESSEE (1878)

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FARRINGTON v. TENNESSEE
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: December 12, 1877
Decided: January 14, 1878
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • William Strong

FARRINGTON v. TENNESSEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 1878. The case was argued before the court on December 12, 1877.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee State Trial Court.

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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: Tennessee
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 95 U.S. 679
  • 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: Noah Haynes Swayne

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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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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