PITTSBURGH &C. RAILWAY v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF WEST VIRGINIA (1898)

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PITTSBURGH &C. RAILWAY v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF WEST VIRGINIA
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Decided: November 28, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

PITTSBURGH &C. RAILWAY v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 28, 1898.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the West Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of West Virginia.

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: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Specified state board or department of education
  • Respondent state: West Virginia
  • Citation: 172 U.S. 32
  • 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: Horace Gray

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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