MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. STROUD (1925)

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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. STROUD
Term: 1924
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1925
Decided: March 2, 1925
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. STROUD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1925. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1925.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri 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: Federalism - national supremacy: public utilities (cf. federal public utilities regulation)
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 267 U.S. 404
  • 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: Pierce Butler

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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