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CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. C.C. WHITNACK PRODUCE COMPANY (1922)

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CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. C.C. WHITNACK PRODUCE COMPANY
Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: March 3, 1922
Decided: April 10, 1922
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. C.C. WHITNACK PRODUCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 10, 1922. The case was argued before the court on March 3, 1922.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Nebraska State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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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: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 258 U.S. 369
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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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