ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v. JAMES (1896)

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ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v. JAMES
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Decided: March 2, 1896
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY v. JAMES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1896.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Arkansas U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Arkansas.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Miscellaneous judicial power, especially diversity jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 161 U.S. 545
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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 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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