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GOOCH v. OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROAD COMPANY (1922)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
GOOCH v. OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: January 13, 1922
Decided: February 27, 1922
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
John Hessin Clarke • Joseph McKenna • William Howard Taft

GOOCH v. OREGON SHORT LINE RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1922. The case was argued before the court on January 13, 1922.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Idaho U.S. District Court.

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: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 258 U.S. 22
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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