PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.F. JACOBY & COMPANY (1916)

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.F. JACOBY & COMPANY
	Term: 1916
Important Dates
	Argued: October 20, 1915
	Decided: December 4, 1916
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Mahlon Pitney

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. W.F. JACOBY & COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1916. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1915.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: presentation, admissibility, or sufficiency of evidence (not necessarily a criminal case)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 242 U.S. 89
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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.