Ezell v. Cockrell

How courts have described this case

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

• “Generally, statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed and confined to their express terms . . . .”
• listing jurisdictions that retained the doctrine as of 1995

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).