Pierson v. Illinois Central Railroad

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he common-law jury, guaranteed by section 31, is a jury with power alone to try issues of fact, and not of law.”
• “[i]f there is reasonable doubt of [a statute’s] constitutionality, it must be upheld by the courts. If it is susceptible of two interpretations, one in favor of constitutionality and the other against, it is the duty of the courts to uphold it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).