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KEITH v. CLARK (1878)

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KEITH v. CLARK
Term: 1878
Important Dates
Argued: November 13, 1878
Decided: December 2, 1878
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan • Morrison Waite

KEITH v. CLARK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 2, 1878. The case was argued before the court on November 13, 1878.

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.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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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: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 97 U.S. 454
  • 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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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