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NEWARK BANKING COMPANY v. NEWARK (1887)

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NEWARK BANKING COMPANY v. NEWARK
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Argued: March 14, 1887
Decided: April 4, 1887
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

NEWARK BANKING COMPANY v. NEWARK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 4, 1887. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1887.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Jersey U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New Jersey.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, 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: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: New Jersey
  • Citation: 121 U.S. 163
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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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