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SUTLIFF v. LAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (1893)

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SUTLIFF v. LAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Decided: January 9, 1893
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras

SUTLIFF v. LAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 9, 1893.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Respondent state: Colorado
  • Citation: 147 U.S. 230
  • 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: Horace Gray

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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