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UNITED STATES v. SIOUX CITY AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (1879)

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UNITED STATES v. SIOUX CITY AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1878
Important Dates
Decided: January 27, 1879
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • William Strong

UNITED STATES v. SIOUX CITY AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 27, 1879.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 99 U.S. 491
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph Bradley

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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