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CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA

Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: January 15, 1896
Decided: March 16, 1896
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan

CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 16, 1896. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1896.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: California
Citation: 162 U.S. 91
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: 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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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