UNITED STATES v. PASSAVANT (1898)

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UNITED STATES v. PASSAVANT
Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: December 1, 1897
Decided: January 3, 1898
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

UNITED STATES v. PASSAVANT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1898. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 1897.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 169 U.S. 16
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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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