Sherman v. Sawyer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the Rules of Civil Procedure cannot be used to extend the jurisdiction of the circuit court”
• acknowledging that the legislature is the branch empowered to enact laws and to declare what the law shall be
• defining jurisdiction as a “court’s power to decide a case or issue a decree”
• defining jurisdiction as a “court’s power to decide a case or issue a decree”
• interpreting the statutory phrase “exclusive jurisdiction” according to its “general and common usage”
• “court is bound by the plain, clear and unambiguous language of the statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).