SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (1886) - Ballotpedia

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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY

Term: 1885
Important Dates
Argued: January 27, 1886
Decided: May 10, 1886
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Concurring
Stephen Johnson Field

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 10, 1886. The case was argued before the court on January 27, 1886.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: California
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 118 U.S. 417
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

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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