Clinchfield Coal Co. v. Robbins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a commissioner of the revenue “may not do indirectly what he cannot do directly” by statutory grant
• holding that a commissioner of the revenue “may not do indirectly what he cannot do directly” by statutory grant
• applying same principle to legislature’s knowledge of Attorney General’s interpretation of statutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).