Sturges v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Applying this principle to the statute in question, it is clear that the legislature could not have used the phrase in question in a literal sense; for a literal construction, it is easy to see, would embrace but a part of the evil that the legislature must have intended to remedy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 33 Conn. Super. Ct. 158 - State v. Cutler