Pinkston v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pitman v. Cunningham · 14 App. D.C. 84 - Keane v. Chamberlain · Haverhill Shoe Novelty Co. v. Leader Shoe Co. · 1 App. D.C. 268 - Kansas City Packing Co. v. Hoover · Pritchett v. . Tolbert
Most-quoted passages
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“It also needs to be said, as has been done time and again, that appellate review must be limited to matters in the official transcript of record and cannot be based on statements of counsel which speak against the record either by way of contradiction or by unauthorized additions thereto. [5]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gomez v. Gomez
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