NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. WALKER (1893)

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. WALKER
	Term: 1892
Important Dates
	Argued: February 1, 1893
	Decided: April 3, 1893
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	7-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. WALKER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 3, 1893. The case was argued before the court on February 1, 1893.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the North Dakota U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of North Dakota.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of jurisdiction (cf. judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal from federal district courts or courts of appeals)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: North Dakota
Citation: 148 U.S. 391
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.