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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. BOONE (1926)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. BOONE
Term: 1925
Important Dates
Argued: January 29, 1926
Decided: March 22, 1926
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. BOONE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 22, 1926. The case was argued before the court on January 29, 1926.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri State Trial 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: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bus or motorized passenger transportation vehicle
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 270 U.S. 466
  • 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: 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 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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