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3 Cited authorities

  1. Markham v. Cabell

    326 U.S. 404 (1945)   Cited 346 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In Markham v. Cabell, 326 U.S. 404, 409, 66 S.Ct. 193, 195, the Court said, "The policy as well as the letter of the law is a guide to decision.

  2. Holy Trinity Church v. United States

    143 U.S. 457 (1892)   Cited 923 times
    Holding that although the Alien Contract Labor Act made it a crime to contract with or encourage any alien to migrate to the United States "to perform labor or service of any kind," a cleric who emigrated from England to serve as a pastor of a New York church and thus technically fell within the letter of the Act, was exempt from the Act's reach because of the absurd results that would follow from giving such broad meaning to words of the statute

  3. Stewart v. Kahn

    78 U.S. 493 (1870)   Cited 64 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Upholding Congressional power to toll state claims during the pendency of the Civil War