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UNITED STATES v. E.C. KNIGHT COMPANY (1895)
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| UNITED STATES v. E.C. KNIGHT COMPANY |
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| Term: 1894 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: October 24, 1894 |
| Decided: January 21, 1895 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 7-1 |
| Majority |
| David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
| Dissenting |
| John Marshall Harlan |
UNITED STATES v. E.C. KNIGHT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 21, 1895. The case was argued before the court on October 24, 1894.
In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
- Petitioner: United States
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 156 U.S. 1
- How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
- 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: Melville Weston Fuller
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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