In re Newcomb’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions

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1. “- “No court or judge shall inquire into the legality of any judgment or process whereby the party is in custody, or discharge him when the term of commitment has not expired, . . . Upon any process issued on any final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; . . .” Rem. Comp. Stat., § 1075.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 7 Wash. 2d 1 - Williams v. McCauley · In re Putnam

2. ““And we are not prepared to say that, upon a writ of habeas corpus, we can look beyond the judgment and re-examine the charges on which it was rendered, or to pronounce the judgment an absolute nullity on the ground that the constitutionality of the statute relative to the license law is controverted. If the validity of a statute is brought in question in an inferior court on the trial of a cause, that question must finally be determined in the same mode as other legal questions arising on the trial of causes in such court — that is, by proceedings in error or appeal, as may be most appropriate and allowable by law.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Phelan · State ex rel. Jahn v. Searing

3. ““After a full and exhaustive' examination of the authorities, we are convinced that the judgment of the superior court of Pierce county is not void for any of the reasons assigned. That court had full and complete jurisdiction to determine every question here presented, and its determination is not and cannot be void. We are further of opinion that where a party is held in custody under process issued on the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or upon a warrant issued from the superior court upon an information or indictment, he is not entitled to his discharge on habeas corpus unless such process or judgment be void, and a judgment is not void simply because the court decided erroneously some question properly before it and within its acknowledged jurisdiction. ... To say that an unconstitutional law or a repealed law is no law is both logical and sound, but to say that a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is no judgment, because some' question of law properly before it was decided erroneously, is, in our opinion, a non sequitur.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Jahn v. Searing