Railroad Commission of Texas v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that because courts are not the law-making body, they are not responsible for omissions in legislation but only for interpreting the statute as written
• stating that because courts are not the law-making body, they are not responsible for omissions in legislation but only for interpreting the statute as written, quoting Simmons v. Amim, 22 S.W. 66,70 (Tex. 1920)
• stating that because courts are not the law-making body, they are not responsible for omissions in legislation but only for interpreting the statute as written, quoting Simmons v. Arnim , 22 S.W. 66,70 (Tex. 1920)
• “Courts must take statutes as they find them . . . . They are not responsible for omissions in legislation.”
• “This brings to mind the maxim that ‘If Parliament does not mean what it says, it must say so.’ . . . We may not invade the legislative field. There is nothing ambiguous or uncertain about the literal meaning of the Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).