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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. HASSE

Term: 1904
Important Dates
Decided: February 20, 1905
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. HASSE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1905.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 197 U.S. 9
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: 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.

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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