KEOKUK AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. MISSOURI (1894)

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KEOKUK AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. MISSOURI
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Argued: December 21, 1893
Decided: March 12, 1894
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • John Marshall Harlan

KEOKUK AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. MISSOURI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 12, 1894. The case was argued before the court on December 21, 1893.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Missouri
  • Citation: 152 U.S. 301
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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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