AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY OF PORTO RICO v. DIDRICKSEN (1913)

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AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY OF PORTO RICO v. DIDRICKSEN
Term: 1912
Important Dates
Decided: January 27, 1913
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Oliver Wendell Holmes

AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY OF PORTO RICO v. DIDRICKSEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 27, 1913.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Puerto Rico U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 227 U.S. 145
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Harmon Lurton

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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