CINCINNATI, HAMILTON AND DAYTON RAILROAD COMPANY v. MCKEEN (1893)

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CINCINNATI, HAMILTON AND DAYTON RAILROAD COMPANY v. MCKEEN
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Decided: May 1, 1893
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras

CINCINNATI, HAMILTON AND DAYTON RAILROAD COMPANY v. MCKEEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 1, 1893.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

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 - judicial administration: certification (cf. objection to reason for denial of certiorari or appeal)
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Broker, stock exchange, investment or securities firm
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 149 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: 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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