ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY v. MATTHEWS (1899)

ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY v. MATTHEWS
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Decided: April 17, 1899
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	5-4
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY v. MATTHEWS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 17, 1899.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas State Trial Court.

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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: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 174 U.S. 96
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.