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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY et al. v. WESTERN CRAWFORD ROAD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (1924)

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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY et al. v. WESTERN CRAWFORD ROAD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
Term: 1924
Important Dates
Decided: November 17, 1924
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY et al. v. WESTERN CRAWFORD ROAD IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 17, 1924.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft 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: Arkansas
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Arkansas
  • Citation: 266 U.S. 187
  • 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: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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