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SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS v. COITE (1868)

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SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS v. COITE
Term: 1867
Important Dates
Argued: February 26, 1868
Decided: March 23, 1868
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Salmon Portland Chase • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller

SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS v. COITE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 23, 1868. The case was argued before the court on February 26, 1868.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Connecticut State Supreme Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
  • Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Connecticut
  • Citation: 73 U.S. 594
  • 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: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Nathan Clifford

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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