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NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA

Term: 1889
Important Dates
Argued: April 24, 1890
Decided: May 19, 1890
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray

NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. PENNSYLVANIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 1890. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1890.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. 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: 136 U.S. 114
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: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

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.

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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