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BALTIMORE & POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CUMBERLAND (1900)

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BALTIMORE & POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CUMBERLAND
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: December 19, 1899
Decided: February 5, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

BALTIMORE & POTOMAC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CUMBERLAND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 5, 1900. The case was argued before the court on December 19, 1899.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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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: Child, children, including adopted or illegitimate
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 176 U.S. 232
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Henry Billings Brown

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 liberal.

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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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