Note 2 — ARTICLE VI
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4. Wheat. 316 (1819). Marshall had anticipated his argument in this case in 1805, in United States v. Fisher, 2 Cr. 358 (1805), in which he upheld the act of 1797 asserting for the United States a priority of its claims over those of the States. See Chief Justice Taft's opinion in Spokane County v. United States, 279 U.S. 80, 87 (1929), where United States v. Fisher is followed; also 1 Warren, Supreme Court in United States History, 372, 538 ff.