ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY (1910)
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY |
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Term: 1910 |
Important Dates |
Argued: October 26, 1910 |
Decided: December 5, 1910 |
Outcome |
Affirmed (includes modified) |
Vote |
7-0 |
Majority |
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White |
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 5, 1910. The case was argued before the court on October 26, 1910.
In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.
About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
- Petitioner: Railroad
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: State
- Respondent state: Kentucky
- Citation: 218 U.S. 551
- 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: Charles Evans Hughes
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.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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