| bgcolor="6699FF" | Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins |
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Supreme Court of the United States |
bgcolor="6699FF" | Argued Jan. 31, 1938
Decided April 25, 1938 |
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| valign="top"|Full case name: | valign="top"|''Erie Railroad Company v. Harry J. Tompkins |
| valign="top"|Citations: | valign="top"|304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188, 114 A.L.R. 1487 |
| valign="top"|Prior history: | valign="top"| |
| valign="top"|Subsequent history: | valign="top"| | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Holding |
| In federal courts, except in matters governed by Federal Constitution or by acts of Congress, law to be applied in any case is law of the state. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed. |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Court membership |
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| Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes |
| Associate Justices Louis D. Brandeis, Pierce Butler, James C. McReynolds, Hugo L. Black, Stanley F. Reed, Owen J. Roberts, Harlan F. Stone, Benjamin N. Cardozo | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Case opinions |
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| Majority by: Brandeis |
| Joined by: Hughes, Black, Stone, Roberts |
| b>Dissent by: Butler, McReynolds |
| b>Concurrance in the judgment by: Reed |
| b>Not participating: Cardozo | } |
| bgcolor="6699FF" | Laws applied |
| No specific law was applied to this case; rather, the Court determined that nothing in the Constitution gave Congress the power to permit the Courts to create a federal common law superseding the laws of the states. |