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STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF KENTUCKY v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: April 20, 1910
Decided: May 2, 1910
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF KENTUCKY v. STATE OF TENNESSEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 2, 1910. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1910.

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.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Tennessee
Citation: 217 U.S. 413
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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