Peck v. Douglas

How courts have described this case

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

• “If the constitutional language, in and of itself, unambiguously furnishes answers to the questions for decision, it prevails over extraneous aids to interpretation.”
• “question is not whether the solution tendered by the plaintiff is better, or wiser . . . but simply whether the present . . . procedure . . . does violence” to the law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).