Stewart v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
March 1990
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“Our Code [OCGA § 23-1-3] and the whole policy of our law, is against all formality that interferes with the true rights of the parties. Whenever a person has a right it is the duty of the Court having jurisdiction of the right, to furnish him a remedy; and if the forms and proceedings already in use do not furnish that remedy, it is the duty of the Court to mould its processes and proceedings so as to do justice and equity. [Stewart v. Dobbs, 39 Ga. 82, 84 (1869).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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