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St. Louis v. Ferry Co.

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
78 U.S. 423
Decided
Confirmed treatments
2
Flagged citations read
3 of 3
Citing cases (total)
3
Treatment dates
1952–1959
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. St. Louis v. Ferry Co. was overruled on the taxability of vessels engaged in interstate operations. All 3 flagged citations have been read.
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The 2 confirmed treatments are listed below; the remaining citing opinion applied the case's rule.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

3 later cases cite St. Louis v. Ferry Co.; 3 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court rejected St. Louis's rationale that the State of domicile could claim the whole tax on vessels moving in interstate commerce and adopted apportionment among the States.

    Standard Oil Co. v. Peck · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Under the earlier view governing the taxability of vessels moving in the inland waters (St. Louis v. Ferry Co., 11 Wall. 423; Ayer & Lord Tie Co. v. Kentucky, 202 U. S. 409; cf. Old Dominion S. S. Co. v. Virginia, 198 U. S. 299), Ohio, the state of the domicile, would have a strong claim to the whole of the tax that has been levied. But the rationale of those cases was rejected in Ott v. Mississippi Barge Line Co., 336 U. S. 169, where we held that vessels moving in interstate operations along the inland waters were taxable by the same standards as those which Pullman’s Car Co. v. Pennsylvania, 141 U. S. 18, first applied to railroad cars in interstate commerce.
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Declined to Follow

  • The Oregon Supreme Court declined to follow St. Louis's home port rule because later Supreme Court precedent governed vessel taxation.

    Smith v. Columbia County · Oregon Supreme Court · filed

    The early decisions of the United States Supreme Court followed this rule. See, St. Louis v. The Ferry Co., 11 Wall 423, 20 L Ed 192; Hays v. The Pacific Mail Steamship Co., 17 How 596; Morgan v. Parham, 16 Wall 471. That is not the rule of law that now governs and as announced in Ott v. Mississippi Valley Barge Line, supra.
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