Burton v. Gage

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Courts have no right, by construction, to substitute their ideas of legislative intent for that unmistakably ... expressed in legislative words”
• “Courts have no right . . . to substitute their ideas of legislative intent for that unmistakably held by the Legislature and unmistakably expressed in legislative words.”
• “[T]he retrospective laws forbidden by [the Constitution] are laws impairing existing vested civil rights.”
• “It would be idle to speculate upon the ground for such legislative omission and silence. For aught that we know both omission and silence may have been grounded on an allowable legislative reason.”
• “It would be idle to speculate upon the ground for such legislative omission and silence. For aught that we know both omission and silence may have been grounded on an allowable legislative reason.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).