 Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts...  A History of the Northern Securities Case - Page 287by Balthasar Henry Meyer - 1906 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 910 pages
...bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for it. Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of...because of some accident of immediate overwhelming и interest which appeals to the feelings and 9 distorts the judgment. These immediate • interests... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 926 pages
...any more than he can fail to exercise his literary art: "Great cases, like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1909 - 448 pages
...has been noticed by a distinguished judge, when he says, "Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment." Let us now consider to what the Act applies — its meaning and scope; whether it stifles... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1904 - 740 pages
...bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for' it. Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests HOLMES, J., The CHIEF JUSTICE, WHITE, PECKHAM. JJ., dissenting.... | |
 | William Zebina Ripley - Corporations - 1905 - 522 pages
...bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for it. Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously... | |
 | Economics - 1907 - 698 pages
...Holmes in his dissenting opinion in the Northern Securities case, "like hard cases make bad law. The great cases are called great, not by reason of their...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment." Justice Holmes might have gone much farther in the application of this doctrine. Great cases... | |
 | Law - 1907 - 402 pages
...dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Holmes, when he said : " Great cases, like bard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of...immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feeling and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure,... | |
 | United States. Courts - Interstate commerce - 1907 - 1088 pages
...bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for it, Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of...immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelNORTHERN SECURITIES CO. V. UNITED STATES. 523 White, J., The Chief Justice, Peckham, Holmes, JJ.,... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1910 - 404 pages
...brought out by Mr. Justice Holmes in his dissenting opinion : "Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously... | |
 | Thomas Reed Powell - 1919 - 472 pages
...Constitution as paramount and not to weaken it by refined dialectics or bend it to some impulse or emergency ' because of some accident of immediate overwhelming...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment '." Of some of the approved exercises of police power brought forward by Mr. Justice Holmes... | |
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