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WABASH, ST. LOUIS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. ILLINOIS

Term: 1886
Important Dates
Argued: April 14, 1886
Decided: October 25, 1886
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • Morrison Waite

WABASH, ST. LOUIS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. ILLINOIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 25, 1886. The case was argued before the court on April 14, 1886.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Illinois
Citation: 118 U.S. 557
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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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