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CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (1895)
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| CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY |
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| Term: 1894 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: December 19, 1894 |
| Decided: March 18, 1895 |
| Outcome |
| Petition denied or appeal dismissed |
| Vote |
| 6-2 |
| Majority |
| Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
| Concurring |
| Stephen Johnson Field |
| Dissenting |
| David Josiah Brewer • John Marshall Harlan |
CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 18, 1895. The case was argued before the court on December 19, 1894.
In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of jurisdiction (cf. judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal from federal district courts or courts of appeals)
- Petitioner: State
- Petitioner state: California
- Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 157 U.S. 229
- How the court took jurisdiction: Original
- 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 conservative.
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