CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. KEEGAN (1895)

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CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. KEEGAN
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Decided: December 23, 1895
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
5-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan

CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. KEEGAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 23, 1895.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 160 U.S. 259
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: Edward Douglass White

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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