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KNOWLTON v. MOORE (1900)

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KNOWLTON v. MOORE
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Decided: May 14, 1900
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-2
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
David Josiah Brewer
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna

KNOWLTON v. MOORE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 14, 1900.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: Taxpayer or executor of taxpayer's estate, federal only
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Internal Revenue Service, Collector, Commissioner, or District Director of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 178 U.S. 41
  • 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: Edward Douglass White

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.

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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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