Town of Chino Valley v. City of Prescott

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that amici curiae may not create, extend, or enlarge the issues
• defining dictum as \a court's statement on a question not necessarily involved in the case\
• dictum “is a court’s statement on a question not necessarily involved in the case and, hence, is without force of adjudication” and “not controlling as precedent”
• “Dictum ... is a court’s statement on a question not necessarily involved in the case and, hence, is without force of adjudication.”
• because dicta is court’s statement on question not necessarily involved in case, it is not controlling as precedent
• “[T]here is no right of ownership of groundwater in Arizona prior to its capture and withdrawal from the common supply . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).