RAILROAD COMPANY v. FRALOFF (1879)

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RAILROAD COMPANY v. FRALOFF
Term: 1879
Important Dates
Argued: April 10, 1879
Decided: November 3, 1879
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong

RAILROAD COMPANY v. FRALOFF is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 3, 1879. The case was argued before the court on April 10, 1879.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, 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, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 100 U.S. 24
  • 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 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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