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INDIANAPOLIS AND VINCENNES RAILROAD COMPANY v. BACKUS

Term: 1893
Important Dates
Argued: March 27, 1894
Decided: May 26, 1894
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan

INDIANAPOLIS AND VINCENNES RAILROAD COMPANY v. BACKUS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1894. The case was argued before the court on March 27, 1894.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Indiana State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Indiana
Citation: 154 U.S. 438
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.

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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