ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v. GILL (1895)

ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v. GILL
	Term: 1894
Important Dates
	Argued: January 24, 1895
	Decided: March 4, 1895
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v. GILL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1895. The case was argued before the court on January 24, 1895.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 156 U.S. 649
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: George Shiras

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.