Downs v. Jacobs

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that constitutional issues will not be decided unless essential to a determination of the case
• providing dicta regarding whether Delaware’s Landlord Distress Law would be deemed unconstitutional even though the Court had decided the issue on non-constitutional grounds
• a constitutional question will not be decided unless it is essential to the disposition of the case
• “We consider that policy of judicial restraint to be an important element in the orderly administration of justice.”
• “We consider that policy of judicial restraint to be an important element in the orderly administration of justice.”
• “[i]t is the settled policy of this Court that a constitutional question will not be decided unless its determination is essential to the disposition of a case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).