Peterson v. Hopson

How courts have described this case

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

• “A judge should hesitate to undo his own work ... Still more should he hesitate to undo the work of another judge.”
• “[A] court orjudge is not bound to reconsider a case, an issue, or a question of fact or law, once decided”
• the power to reconsider “an issue, or a question of fact or law, once decided, . . . remains in the court until final judgment or decree”
• “When there has been no change of circumstances and no new evidence, a court is not required even to entertain, much less hold a hearing, on a reconsideration motion.”
• “A question of law not seasonably and properly saved, cannot be revived by the simple expedient of bringing it forward again, demanding a second ruling, and claiming an exception or appeal from that second ruling”
• “[tjhough there is no duty to reconsider a case, an issue, or a question of fact or law, once decided, the power to do so remains in the court until final judgment or decree”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).