Poage v. Bell

How courts have described this case

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

• construing the phrase \shall take effect\ to refer to the law's \active operation\ and upholding the law, so construed, against a constitutional challenge
• construing the phrase “shall take effect” to refer to the law’s “active operation” and upholding the law, so construed, against a constitutional challenge
• upholding as constitutional a law that “by its own restraining language [was] absolutely prevented from operating and hence from running counter to the then Constitution”
• implicitly extending the rationale in Rathie to legislation proscribing the manner of executing the death penalty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).