CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (1895)

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CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
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.

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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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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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