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Chapman v. Dorsey

Citations

  • 230 Minn. 279
  • 16 A.L.R. 2d 1015
  • 41 N.W.2d 438
  • 1950 Minn. LEXIS 613

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that opinions are not precedential on issues “never raised or called to the attention of the court”
  • stating that opinions are not precedential on issues “never raised or called to the attention of the court”
  • deciding appeal based on the assumption that appellate jurisdiction existed, without actually addressing whether it did, is not precedential regarding existence of appellate jurisdiction
  • stating that opinions are not prece-dential on issues “never raised or called to the attention of the court”
  • stating that issues that were never “raised or called to the attention of the court” do not represent binding law
  • stating that an opinion deciding an appeal based on the assumption that appellate jurisdiction existed is not precedential regarding the existence of appellate jurisdiction where the existence of appellate jurisdiction was not addressed by the court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Matson

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58 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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