ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. OHIO STATE AUDITOR (February 1, 1897)

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. OHIO STATE AUDITOR
	Term: 1896
Important Dates
	Decided: February 1, 1897
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	5-4
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
	Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. OHIO STATE AUDITOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1897.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Ohio.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Ohio
Citation: 165 U.S. 194
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.