CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY v. ILLINOIS (1900)

CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY v. ILLINOIS
	Term: 1899
Important Dates
	Argued: March 16, 1900
	Decided: April 30, 1900
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
	David Josiah Brewer • George Shiras

CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COMPANY v. ILLINOIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 30, 1900. The case was argued before the court on March 16, 1900.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Illinois State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Illinois
Citation: 177 U.S. 514
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.