BALTIMORE & OHIO SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. VOIGT (1900)

BALTIMORE & OHIO SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. VOIGT
	Term: 1899
Important Dates
	Argued: December 20, 1899
	Decided: February 26, 1900
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan

BALTIMORE & OHIO SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. VOIGT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 26, 1900. The case was argued before the court on December 20, 1899.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Ohio U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Ohio.

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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: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 176 U.S. 498
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: George Shiras

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.