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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF MINNESOTA (1910)

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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF MINNESOTA
Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: November 5, 1909
Decided: February 21, 1910
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF MINNESOTA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1910. The case was argued before the court on November 5, 1909.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, 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: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Minnesota
  • Citation: 216 U.S. 206
  • 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: 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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