COULTER v. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY (1905)

COULTER v. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: November 29, 1904
	Decided: February 20, 1905
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

COULTER v. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1905. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 1904.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Kentucky
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 196 U.S. 599
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.