Gardner v. Michigan Central Railroad Company

1893-11-27 · Supreme Court of the United States · United States

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2 judgments have relied on it, across 1928–1938

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1938-04-25Erie Railroad Co. v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States×2 1928-04-09Black and White Taxicab and Transfer Company v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab and Transfer CompanySupreme Court of the United States

What it rests on

1893-01-03Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company v. PrenticeSupreme Court of the United States 1880-01-12Hough v. Railway CompanySupreme Court of the United States 1873-10-20Railroad Company v. LockwoodSupreme Court of the United States

5 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

Departed from

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Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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