PIERCE v. SOMERSET RAILWAY (1898)

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PIERCE v. SOMERSET RAILWAY
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1898
Decided: October 31, 1898
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

PIERCE v. SOMERSET RAILWAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 31, 1898. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1898.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Maine State Supreme Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 171 U.S. 641
  • 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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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