SPOKANE & INLAND EMPIRE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CAMPBELL (1916)

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SPOKANE & INLAND EMPIRE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CAMPBELL
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: April 26, 1916
Decided: June 12, 1916
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

SPOKANE & INLAND EMPIRE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CAMPBELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1916. The case was argued before the court on April 26, 1916.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 241 U.S. 497
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Mahlon Pitney

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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