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Orgain v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis

1842

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1975
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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  1. ““. . . for although it is true a chancellor is not bound by the finding of a jury upon an issue of fact out of chancery submitted to them, and may disregard the finding and decide the cause ‘in the teeth of the verdict,’ yet it does not follow that it is to have no weight with him and much less does it follow that this court is to be uninfluenced thereby.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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