Woods v. Stone

I had supposed that no rule of judicial administration was better settled than that the Court should restrict itself to the questions presented in a petition for certiorari. This is especially true where, as here, the petition was granted but “limited to the question as to the statute of limitations presented by the petition for the writ,” 332 U. S. 835, and the case was transferred to the summary docket. The exceptions to this rule are rare, as where the jurisdiction of this Court or of the lower courts is plainly wanting, or where a patent error in javorem vitae is to be noted. In any…