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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMISSIONERS v. BALTIMORE & POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY (1885)

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMISSIONERS v. BALTIMORE & POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: April 9, 1885
Decided: April 20, 1885
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COMMISSIONERS v. BALTIMORE & POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1885. The case was argued before the court on April 9, 1885.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Petitioner state: District of Columbia
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 114 U.S. 453
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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