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THOMSON v. PACIFIC RAILROAD

Term: 1869
Important Dates
Argued: March 24, 1870
Decided: April 30, 1870
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

THOMSON v. PACIFIC RAILROAD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 30, 1870. The case was argued before the court on March 24, 1870.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 76 U.S. 579
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
Who wrote the majority opinion: Salmon Portland Chase

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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