Ok...with the results of my previous search in hand, I added "Santa Clara" to the search terms, and I find that Wikipedia names names


"However, before oral argument took place, Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite announced:

    "The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."[3]

This quotation was printed by the court reporter, J.C. Bancroft Davis, a former president of a small railroad, in the syllabus and case history above the opinion, but was not in the opinion itself. As such, it did not technically - in the view of most legal historians - have any legal precedential value.[4] However, the Supreme Court is not required by Constitution or even precedent to limit its rulings to written statements."