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 3301904Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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