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" Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not. by reas'on 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... "
The Green Bag - Page 330
1904
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Constitutional Law in 1917-1918: The Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme ...

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...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment '." Of some of the approved exercises of police power brought forward by Mr. Justice Holmes as illustrations...
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Political Science Quarterly, Volume 36

Electronic journals - 1921 - 868 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...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment '." Of some of the approved exercises of police power brought forward by Mr. Justice Holmes as illustrations...
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Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 41

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 668 pages
...Constitution as paramount. and not to weaken H by refined dialectics, or bend It to some Impulse or emergency "because of some accident of immediate overwhelming...appeals to the feelIngs and distorts the judgment." Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 US 197, 400, 24 Sup. Ct 436, 468 (48 L. Ed. 679). We...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 256

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1922 - 840 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 feeling, and distorts the judgment." Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 US 197, 400. We...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 256

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1922 - 830 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 feeling, and distorts the judgment." Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 US 197, 400. We...
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A Review of Recent Decisions on Corporations and the Law of Persons

Lionel Bertram Benas - Corporations - 1926 - 102 pages
...influence of the political significance of the case. Justice Holmes once said: "Great cases, like hara cases make bad law. For great cases are called great,...real importance in shaping the law of the future, but becausft of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts...
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Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary: Hearings Before the Committee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1060 pages
...Securities Co. v. United States (193 US 197, 400 (1904) ). He there wrote in his dissenting opinion : Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are culled great, not by reason of tlieir real importance in shaping UN- hiw of the future, but N-oause...
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Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin, Volume 9

State Bar Association of Wisconsin - Bar associations - 1912 - 468 pages
...literal rule. Mr. Justice HOLMES also filed a dissenting opinion, beginning with these memorable words: "Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law; for great...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment." The Addyston Pipe 16 case, decided by the Court of Appeals in 1898 and by the Supreme Court in 1899,...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 330

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1947 - 940 pages
...evenly and dispassionately according to law, as each is given understanding to ascertain and apply it. 1 "Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great...great, not by reason -of their real importance in sharing the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which...
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Report of the Mid-winter Session and ... Annual ..., Volume 14, Part 1909

Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 448 pages
...growth and magnitude of industrial affairs has been noticed by a distinguished judge, when he says, "Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment." Let us now consider to what the Act applies — its meaning and scope ; whether it stifles interstate...
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