Snyder v. King

How courts have described this case

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• observing that courts should decide cases \only on the specific facts of the particular case and not on hypothetical situations\
• concluding an 1843 Indiana statute enumerating nine infamous crimes was not a present-day constitutional test
• concluding an 1843 Indiana statute enumerating nine infamous crimes was not a present-day constitutional test
• explaining that a “cardinal principle of the judicial function is that courts should not issue advisory opinions but instead should decide cases only on the specific facts of the particular case and not on hypothetical situations”
• noting the “cardinal principle” that we will not pass upon a constitutional question unless it is “absolutely necessary to do so”
• discussing the “cardinal principle” that we will not pass upon a constitutional question unless it is “absolutely necessary to do so”

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