ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY v. ROBINSON (1914)

ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY v. ROBINSON
	Term: 1913
Important Dates
	Argued: February 26, 1914
	Decided: April 6, 1914
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Mahlon Pitney

ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY v. ROBINSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 6, 1914. The case was argued before the court on February 26, 1914.

In a 7-1 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 Oklahoma State Trial 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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 233 U.S. 173
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: William Rufus Day

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.