PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY v. ROCK (1924)

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PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY v. ROCK
Term: 1924
Important Dates
Decided: November 17, 1924
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Howard Taft

PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY v. ROCK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 17, 1924.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. District Court for the Canal Zone.

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: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 266 U.S. 209
  • 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: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: George Sutherland

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.

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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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