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KEOKUK AND HAMILTON BRIDGE COMPANY v. ILLINOIS (1900)

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KEOKUK AND HAMILTON BRIDGE COMPANY v. ILLINOIS
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Decided: January 8, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

KEOKUK AND HAMILTON BRIDGE COMPANY v. ILLINOIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1900.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, 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: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 175 U.S. 626
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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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