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HODGE v. MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA (1905)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
HODGE v. MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA
Term: 1904
Important Dates
Argued: December 9, 1904
Decided: January 16, 1905
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

HODGE v. MUSCATINE COUNTY, IOWA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 16, 1905. The case was argued before the court on December 9, 1904.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, 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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Iowa
  • Citation: 196 U.S. 276
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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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