NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA (1894)

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NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Argued: April 23, 1894
Decided: May 14, 1894
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownStephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanHowell Edmunds JacksonGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 14, 1894. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1894.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Pennsylvania State Trial Court.

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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: Pennsylvania
  • Citation: 153 U.S. 628
  • 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: 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 conservative.

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