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OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION v. TEXAS COMPANY

Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: November 19, 1948
Decided: March 7, 1949
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Robert Jackson

OKLAHOMA TAX COMMISSION v. TEXAS COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 7, 1949. The case was argued before the court on November 19, 1948.

In a 9-0 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 Oklahoma State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
Petitioner: State commission, board, committee, or authority
Petitioner state: Oklahoma
Respondent type: Oil company, or natural gas producer
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 336 U.S. 342
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: Wiley Rutledge

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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