GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, v. QUINLAN (1909)

GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, v. QUINLAN
	Term: 1908
Important Dates
	Argued: December 17, 1908
	Decided: January 4, 1909
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan

GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, v. QUINLAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1909. The case was argued before the court on December 17, 1908.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: Kentucky
Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 211 U.S. 582
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: William Henry Moody

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.