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QUINLAN v. GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY

Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: February 27, 1907
Decided: April 8, 1907
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

QUINLAN v. GREEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 8, 1907. The case was argued before the court on February 27, 1907.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Kentucky
Citation: 205 U.S. 410
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: William Henry Moody

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.

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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