BELL'S GAP RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA (1890)

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BELL'S GAP RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA
Term: 1889
Important Dates
Decided: March 3, 1890
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller

BELL'S GAP RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1890.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: federal question (cf. no merits: dismissed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question)
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Pennsylvania
  • Citation: 134 U.S. 232
  • 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: Joseph Bradley

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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