Dodson Ex Rel. Dodson v. Shrader’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The common law has been aptly called the ‘lex non scripta ’ because it is a rule prescribed by the common consent and agreement of the community as one applicable to its different relations, and capable of preserving the peace, good order, and harmony of society, and rendering unto everyone that which of right belongs to him. Its sources are to be found in the usages, habits, manners, and customs of a people. Its seat [is] in the breast of the judges who are its expositors and expounders. Such, then, is the common law, that though principles once established by judicial determination can only be changed by legislative enactment, yet such is its malleability ... that new principles may be developed, and old ones extended, by analogy, so as to embrace newly-created relations and changes produced by times and circumstances ...””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Glass v. City of Chattanooga

2. “a matter for determination at the trial level.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Menuskin v. Williams