Hylton v. United States
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Argued February 23, 1796 Decided March 8, 1796
Full case name: Daniel Hylton, Plaintiff in Error v. United States Citations: 3 U.S. 171 Prior history: Defendant convicted, Circuit Court for the District of Virginia Subsequent history: None
Holding
A tax on the possession of goods is not a "direct" tax, which must be apportioned under Article I of the Constitution.
Court membership
Chief Justice Ellsworth Associate Justices Chase, Iredell, Paterson, Wilson, Cushing
Case opinions
Seriatim opinion by: Chase Seriatim opinion by: Paterson Seriatim opinion by: Iredell Seriatim opinion by: Wilson Not participating: Ellsworth, Cushing
Laws applied
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Hylton v. United States, 3 U.S. 171 (1796)^[1], was an early United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a tax on carriages was not in violation of the apportionment clause. The Justices at the time, rather than issued an opinion of the Court, instead issued seriatim opinions, with each writing separately and reading their own analysis in turn. Court citation is a standard system used in common law countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia to uniquely identify the location of past court cases in special series of books called reporters. ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Seriatim, Latin for in series, is a legal term typically used to indicate that a court is addressing multiple issues in a certain order, such as the order that the issues were originally presented to the court. ...

References

• Jean Edward Smith, John Marshall: Definer Of A Nation, New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1996.

Jean Edward Smith is an accomplished educator and biographer having authored such works as Grant, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, and Presently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. ...

External link

• ^ 3 U.S. 171 (Text of the case from FindLaw.)