BANK OF COMMERCE v. SEATTLE. (1897)

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BANK OF COMMERCE v. SEATTLE.
Term: 1896
Important Dates
Argued: March 23, 1897
Decided: April 12, 1897
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

BANK OF COMMERCE v. SEATTLE. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 12, 1897. The case was argued before the court on March 23, 1897.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington State Trial Court.

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: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: Washington
  • Citation: 166 U.S. 463
  • 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: George Shiras

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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