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OHIO v. THOMAS (1899)

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OHIO v. THOMAS
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1899
Decided: February 27, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
John Marshall Harlan

OHIO v. THOMAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1899. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1899.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Ohio.

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: Federalism - national supremacy: commodities
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Ohio
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Ohio
  • Citation: 173 U.S. 276
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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