KINDRED v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (1912)

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KINDRED v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1911
Important Dates
Argued: November 9, 1911
Decided: June 10, 1912
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

KINDRED v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1912. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1911.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. Circuit for the District of Kansas.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 225 U.S. 582
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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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