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DANIELS v. RAILROAD COMPANY

Term: 1865
Important Dates
Decided: March 26, 1866
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • James Moore Wayne

DANIELS v. RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 26, 1866.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from federal district courts or courts of appeals (cf. 753)
Petitioner: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 70 U.S. 250
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
Who wrote the majority opinion: Noah Haynes Swayne

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.

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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