Smith's Administrator v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The right of trial by jury, as it exists here, is derived from the common law, and.it is so highly valuable to the citizen, so essential to liberty, that it is secured as a constitutional right, and must, in a government like ours, be understood to extend at least as far as it did at the common law, and if alterations are made, policy would dictate an extension rather than a restriction of a privilege invaluable in itself, and so highly prized by the citizen.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Riverboat Corporation of Mississippi v. Harrison County Board of Supervisors