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POINDEXTER v. GREENHOW, TREASURER (1885)

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POINDEXTER v. GREENHOW, TREASURER
Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: March 25, 1885
Decided: April 20, 1885
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

POINDEXTER v. GREENHOW, TREASURER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1885. The case was argued before the court on March 25, 1885.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
  • Petitioner state: Virginia
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Virginia
  • Citation: 114 U.S. 270
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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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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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