CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY v. HARRINGTON (1916) - Ballotpedia

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CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY v. HARRINGTON

Term: 1915
Important Dates
Decided: May 1, 1916
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY v. HARRINGTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 1, 1916.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri 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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 241 U.S. 177
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: Charles Evans Hughes

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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