Thornton v. Carter

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that once a mandate issues from the reviewing court to the court below, a second appeal brings up nothing for review but the proceedings subsequent to the mandate
• holding that a lower court is bound by the decree of the appellate court and “can only enter a judgment or decree in strict compliance with the [appellate court’s] mandate”
• “[The district] court is without power to do anything which is contrary to either the letter or spirit of the mandate construed in the light of the opinion of [the Eighth Circuit] deciding the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).