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RALLS COUNTY COURT v. UNITED STATES (1882)

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RALLS COUNTY COURT v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Argued: April 12, 1882
Decided: May 8, 1882
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

RALLS COUNTY COURT v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 8, 1882. The case was argued before the court on April 12, 1882.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Missouri.

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: Court or judicial district
  • Petitioner state: Missouri
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 105 U.S. 733
  • 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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