Carpenter v. Shaw

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding, in a case analogous to Ward, that “a denial by a state court of a recovery of taxes exacted in violation of the laws or Constitution of the United States by compulsion is itself in contravention of the Fourteenth Amendment”
• “Doubtful expressions are to be resolved in favor of the weak and defenseless people who are the wards of the nation, dependent upon its protection and good, faith.”
• \Doubtful expressions are to be resolved in favor of the [Indians]\
• use, alienation, taxation, and regulation on Indian property
• “Where a federal right is concerned we are not bound by the characterization given to a state tax by the state courts or legislatures, or relieved by it from the duty of considering the real nature of the tax and its effect upon the federal right asserted.”
• state labels not binding on federal court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).