United States v. Pacific Railway

GPTKB entity

Properties (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf legal case
gptkbp:applicationNumber No. 1, 1886
gptkbp:citedBy 118 U.S. 394
gptkbp:court gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court
gptkbp:date December 1885
January 1886
gptkbp:decidedBy 1886
gptkbp:historical_analysis case law development in transportation law
contribution to administrative law
effects on public policy
impact on economic regulation.
influence on property law
relationship between government and corporations
role in shaping federalism
historical_significance_in_the_context_of_the_Gilded_Age
impact_on_American_legal_history
gptkbp:historicalContext transcontinental railroad
government land policies
economic_development_in_the_West
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label United States v. Pacific Railway
gptkbp:impact railroad expansion
land ownership disputes
federal authority over states
legal framework for future cases
gptkbp:is_involved_in gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Pacific_Railway_Company
gptkbp:judges gptkb:Justice_Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.
gptkb:Justice_William_J._Brennan_Jr.
gptkb:Justice_John_Marshall_Harlan
gptkb:Justice_Stephen_J._Field
gptkb:Justice_David_J._Brewer
gptkbp:legal_principle land grant
government's right to regulate land use
interpretation of land grants
gptkbp:legal_representation interpretation of federal land grants
impact on future land grant cases
federal_versus_state_authority
gptkbp:legalStatus gptkb:post-Civil_War_America
railroad industry growth
land grant acts
gptkbp:outcome affirmed lower court decision
gptkbp:politicalParty gptkb:Justice_Stephen_J._Field
gptkbp:precedent railroad land grants
gptkbp:relatedPatent gptkb:United_States_v._Northern_Pacific_Railway
gptkb:United_States_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Company
gptkb:United_States_v._Northern_Pacific_Railway_Company
gptkb:United_States_v._Union_Pacific_Railroad_Company
gptkb:United_States_v._Atchison,_Topeka_and_Santa_Fe_Railway_Company
gptkb:United_States_v._Chicago,_Milwaukee,_St._Paul_and_Pacific_Railroad_Company
gptkbp:significance impact on federal land policy