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INTERSTATE OIL PIPE LINE CO. v. STONE, CHAIRMAN STATE TAX COMMISSION (1949)

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INTERSTATE OIL PIPE LINE CO. v. STONE, CHAIRMAN STATE TAX COMMISSION
Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: January 13, 1949
Decided: June 20, 1949
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
Wiley Rutledge
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy
Concurring
Harold Burton
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

INTERSTATE OIL PIPE LINE CO. v. STONE, CHAIRMAN STATE TAX COMMISSION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 20, 1949. The case was argued before the court on January 13, 1949.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Pipe line company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 337 U.S. 662
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Wiley Rutledge

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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