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DENVER AND RIO GRANDE RAILWAY v. HARRIS (1887)

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DENVER AND RIO GRANDE RAILWAY v. HARRIS
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Argued: May 5, 1887
Decided: May 27, 1887
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

DENVER AND RIO GRANDE RAILWAY v. HARRIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1887. The case was argued before the court on May 5, 1887.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 122 U.S. 597
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

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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