Poindexter v. Greenhow, Treasurer, Etc. In Error to the Hustings
Cases that cite this one
28 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.
- Commonwealth v. McCullough (Va. 1894)
- Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (Supreme Court of the United States 1996)
- Cooney v. Park County (Wyo. 1990)
- McGahey v. Virginia (Supreme Court of the United States 1890)
- McCullough v. Virginia (Supreme Court of the United States 1898)
- Kirk v. Denver Publishing Co. (Colo. 1991)
- Butz v. Economou (Supreme Court of the United States 1978)
- Plesch v. Banque Nationale de la Republique d'Haiti (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1948)
- Great Northern Life Insurance Co. v. Read (Supreme Court of the United States 1944)
- Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell (Supreme Court of the United States 1934)
- Cappellini v. Commissioner (United States Board of Tax Appeals 1929)
- United States v. Ju Toy (Supreme Court of the United States 1905)
- United States v. Brad Wendt (8th Cir. 2026)
- Charles Baker v. F & F Investment, Sidney Clark v. Universal Builders, Inc. (7th Cir. 1970)
- Yoerg v. Iowa Dairy Industry Commission (Iowa 1953)
- Byron Jackson Co. v. United States (United States District Court for the Southern District of California 1940)
- Borough of Fort Lee, N. J. v. United States ex rel. Barker (3d Cir. 1939)
- Harsha v. City of Detroit (Mich. 1933)
- Downs v. Lazzelle, Judge (W. Va. 1926)
- People ex rel. Murray v. City of St. Louis (Ill. 1921)
- People ex rel. McPike v. Van De Carr (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1904)
- Lansburgh v. District of Columbia (D.C. Cir. 1897)
- Chapman v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1895)
- Logan v. Stogsdale (Ind. 1890)
- State ex rel. Corwin v. Indiana & Ohio Oil, Gas, & Mining Co. (Ind. 1889)
This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.
Opinion
5 S.Ct. 962
114 U.S. 330
29 L.Ed. 207
POINDEXTER
v.
GREENHOW, Treasurer, etc. In Error to the Hustings
Court of the City of Richmond, State of Virginia.
WHITE
v.
SAME.
CARTER
v.
SAME.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of Virginia.
ALLEN, Auditor, etc., and others
v.
BALTIMORE & O.R. CO. Appeal from the Circuit Court of
the United States for the Western District of Virginia.
PLEASANTS
v.
GREENHOW, Treasurer, etc. Appeal from the Circuit Court
of the United States for the Eastern District
of Virginia.
CHAFFIN
v.
TAYLOR. In Error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of
the State of Virginia.
MARYE, Auditor, etc., and others
v.
PARSONS. Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of Virginia.
April 20, 1885.
There were eight of these cases. All related to the legislation of the State of Virginia of March 30, 1871, authorizing coupons of the funded debt of the State to be received in payment of taxes, debts, dues, and demands due the State, and to subsequent legislation, practically forbidding the receipt of the coupons in present payment of dues and taxes. court. The legislation is set forth, or referred to in Antoni v. Greenhow, 107 U.S. 769, and in the opinion of the court in the first of the present cases.
The cases were argued, or submitted, in the following order: PLEASANTS v. GREENHOW,, was submitted December 1, 1884. POINDEXTER v. GREENHOW; WHITE v. GREENHOW; CHAFFIN v. TAYLOR; CARTER v. GREENHOW; and MOORE v. GREENHOW, were argued together March 20, 23, 24 and 25, 1885. ALLEN v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD CO. was argued March 25, 26, 1885; and MARYE v. PARSONS was argued March 26, 27, 1885.
The opinions and judgments of the court in all the cases except MOORE v. GREENHOW were announced April 20, 1885. In the later case they were announced May 4, 1885.
The dissenting opinion will be found after the opinion of the court in MARYE v. PARSONS. The Justices who concurred in it dissented from the judgments and opinions of the court in POINDEXTER v. GREENHOW; WHITE v. GREENHOW; CHAFFIN v. TAYLOR; and ALLEN v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD CO. In PLEASANTS v. GREENHOW; CARTER v. GREENHOW; and MARYE v. PARSONS, they concurred in the judgments of the court, but rested their concurrence on the reasons given in their dissenting opinion.
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