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SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA (1886)

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SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA
Term: 1885
Important Dates
Decided: April 26, 1886
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 26, 1886.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 118 U.S. 109
  • 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: Morrison Waite

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.

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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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