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WHITBECK v. MERCANTILE NATIONAL BANK OF CLEVELAND

Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: March 20, 1888
Decided: April 23, 1888
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller

WHITBECK v. MERCANTILE NATIONAL BANK OF CLEVELAND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1888. The case was argued before the court on March 20, 1888.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Ohio
Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 127 U.S. 193
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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 conservative.

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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