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ILLINOIS v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY (1902)

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ILLINOIS v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: March 15, 1901
Decided: February 3, 1902
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

ILLINOIS v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 3, 1902. The case was argued before the court on March 15, 1901.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Illinois
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 184 U.S. 77
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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 liberal.

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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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