Sheets v. Castle

How courts have described this case

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

• “We hold that under the plain meaning of the term, there is no ‘prevailing party’ when a nonsuit is awarded.”
• an appellate court’s refusal of a petition for appeal, generally, constitutes a decision on the merits
• “A nonsuit does not involve a decision on the merits, rather, it simply puts an end to the present action, but is no bar to a subsequent action for the same cause.”
• “the refusal of a petition for appeal is based upon the merits of the case . . . unless the grounds upon which the refusal is based is discernible from the four corners of the Court’s order, the denial carries no precedential value”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).