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NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY CO. v. SIMS

Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: November 12, 1903
Decided: December 7, 1903
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY CO. v. SIMS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 7, 1903. The case was argued before the court on November 12, 1903.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the North Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: North Carolina
Citation: 191 U.S. 441
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: Henry Billings Brown

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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External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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