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NEW YORK STATE v. ROBERTS (1898)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
NEW YORK STATE v. ROBERTS
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: April 20, 1898
Decided: October 31, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan

NEW YORK STATE v. ROBERTS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 31, 1898. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1898.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York 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: State
  • Petitioner state: New York
  • Respondent type: Drug manufacturer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 171 U.S. 658
  • 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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