MITCHELL v. POTOMAC INSURANCE COMPANY (1901)

MITCHELL v. POTOMAC INSURANCE COMPANY
	Term: 1901
Important Dates
	Argued: October 23, 1901
	Decided: November 11, 1901
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Judgment of the court
	Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

MITCHELL v. POTOMAC INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 11, 1901. The case was argued before the court on October 23, 1901.

In a 9-0 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: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 183 U.S. 42
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.