Legal Opinion
Nippert v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 25, 1946No. 72PublishedCited by 259 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rutledge
The question is whether a license tax laid by an ordinance of the City of Richmond, Virginia, upon engaging in business as solicitor can be applied in the facts of this case consistently with the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution, Article I, § 8. As the case has been made, the issue is substantially whether the long line of so-called “drummer cases”1 beginning with Robbins v. Shelby *418County Taxing District, 120 U. S. 489, shall be adhered to in result or shall now be overruled in the light of what attorneys for the city say are recent trends requiring that outcome.
The ordinance lays…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- International Shoe Co. v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Wisconsin v. J. C. Penney Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Western Live Stock v. Bureau of RevenueSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
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3Cited by259 opinions
- California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Breard v. AlexandriaSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Capital Cities Cable, Inc. v. CrispSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Prudential Insurance v. BenjaminSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
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