OREGON AND CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. NO. 3 (1903)

OREGON AND CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. NO. 3
	Term: 1902
Important Dates
	Argued: March 4, 1903
	Decided: May 4, 1903
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

OREGON AND CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. NO. 3 is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1903. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 1903.

In an 8-0 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 Oregon U.S. Circuit for the District of Oregon.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 190 U.S. 186
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Henry Billings Brown

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 liberal.