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PLUMMER v. COLER (1900)

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PLUMMER v. COLER
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: February 27, 1900
Decided: May 14, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras
Dissenting
Edward Douglass White

PLUMMER v. COLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 14, 1900. The case was argued before the court on February 27, 1900.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Respondent state: Pennsylvania
  • Citation: 178 U.S. 115
  • 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: George Shiras

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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