Wooton v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The only judgment is that rendered for the plaintiff; and the statement, in the entry of that judgment, that ‘this cause is dismissed,’ must be, we conclude, a clerical misprision. It is so repugnant to what precedes and follows it, that we cannot suppose it truly to represent the action of the court. Besides it has been repeatedly decided, that these, or equivalent words, without more, do not amount to a judgment of dismissal,” etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peckham v. Clark