E. L. Dana Livestock Co. v. McClure

How courts have described this case

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

• police officer, who received $1,000 for not arresting someone who had stolen money, was properly convicted of extortion because \generically extortion is an abuse of public justice and a misuse by oppression of the power with which the law clothes a public officer\
• police officer, who received $1,000 for not arresting someone who had stolen money, was properly convicted of extortion because “generically extortion is an abuse of public justice and a misuse by oppression of the power with which the law clothes a public officer”
• “The rule of construction is that when a later statute omits words ... included previously in the law, such omission is meaningful and was done with full knowledge and approval of its effect.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).