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GALVESTON, HARRISBURG AND SAN ANTONIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF TEXAS (1908)

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GALVESTON, HARRISBURG AND SAN ANTONIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF TEXAS
Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1908
Decided: May 18, 1908
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

GALVESTON, HARRISBURG AND SAN ANTONIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF TEXAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1908. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1908.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Texas
  • Citation: 210 U.S. 217
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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