Shimer v. Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP

How courts have described this case

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

• stating a punishment “to be held excessive” … “should be so out of proportion to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the people.”
• stating for a Court to find a punishment cruel or unusual, it should be so out of proportion to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the people or “so excessive or so cruel as to meet the disapproval and condemnation of the conscience and reason of men generally.”
• comparing contempt punishments in three other states

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).