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... Presidential Records Act of 1978: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the ... - Էջ 610United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights - 1978 - 896 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - 1994 - 834 էջ
...this Court's interpretation.35 Indeed, the desire for revenge exerts "a kind of hydraulic pressure . . ."before which even well settled principles of law...bend," Northern Securities Co. v United States, 193 US 197, 401, 48 L Ed 679, 24 S Ct 436 (1904) (Holmes, J., dissenting), but it is precisely at such... | |
| Bernard Schwartz - 1993 - 480 էջ
...affected both the country and the Court itself. These are watershed cases, which, in Holmes's words, "exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes...before which even well settled principles of law will bend."1 If any case deserves to be treated as such a case, it is the Dred Scott case.2 Before the decision... | |
| Richard D. Atkins - 1995 - 478 էջ
...this Court's interpretation.35 Indeed, the desire for revenge exerts "a kind of hydraulic pressure ... before which even well settled principles of law will...bend," Northern Securities Co, v. United States, 193 US 197, 401 (1904) (Holmes, J., dissenting), but it is precisely at such moments that we should remember... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.), Felix Frankfurter - 1996 - 360 էջ
...which he described as "some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feeling and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests...which even well settled principles of law will bend." 6. See above, May 31, 1920. Washington, DC October 24, 1920 Dear Frankfurter, This is only a line of... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1996 - 378 էջ
...shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment....which even well settled principles of law will bend. What we have to do in this case is to find the meaning of some not very difficult words. We must try,... | |
| David L. Gregory - 1999 - 396 էջ
...shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment....Securities Co. v. United States, 193 US 197, 400-401 (1904). A majority of this Court, swept away by society's obsession with stopping the scourge of illegal... | |
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