Morrissey v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1988
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People ex rel. Lafferty v. Feicke · Hoffmann v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. · Froling v. Farrar · Trapino v. Trapino
Most-quoted passages
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“[A]s a general rule the law does not authorize a person to execute process in his own favor. To permit such a course of practice would lead to great oppression, wrong, and irregularity. The law has wisely entrusted the decision of disputes between citizens to persons wholly disinterested and free from bias and the acrimony of feeling so frequently, if not uniformly, engendered by litigation; and the same is equally true of the persons selected to execute the process necessary to the adjustment of such disputes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is difficult to conceive of a greater opportunity for mischief than to allow interested litigants to be uninhibited from averring that they have made service in their own behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a general principle of law that a person cannot serve process in his own action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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