TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY et al. v. LEATHERWOOD (1919)

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TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY et al. v. LEATHERWOOD
Term: 1918
Important Dates
Decided: June 9, 1919
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Judgment of the court
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Concurring
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Hessin Clarke • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney

TEXAS & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY et al. v. LEATHERWOOD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 9, 1919.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas State Trial Court.

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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: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 250 U.S. 478
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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