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LYKES v. UNITED STATES (1952)

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LYKES v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: November 29, 1951
Decided: March 24, 1952
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

LYKES v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 1952. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 1951.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida Florida Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
  • Petitioner: Taxpayer or executor of taxpayer's estate, federal only
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 343 U.S. 118
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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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