UNITED STATES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY (1894) - Ballotpedia

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UNITED STATES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

Term: 1893
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1894
Decided: May 26, 1894
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown

UNITED STATES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1894. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1894.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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: Federalism - national supremacy: natural resources (cf. natural resources - environmental protection)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 154 U.S. 225
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: Stephen Johnson Field

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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