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RAILROAD COMPANY v. COUNTY OF HAMBLEN (1880)

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RAILROAD COMPANY v. COUNTY OF HAMBLEN
Term: 1880
Important Dates
Argued: November 17, 1880
Decided: November 29, 1880
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

RAILROAD COMPANY v. COUNTY OF HAMBLEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 29, 1880. The case was argued before the court on November 17, 1880.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee 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: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 102 U.S. 273
  • 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: Morrison Waite

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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