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" 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... "
United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules ... - Page 24
by United States. Supreme Court - 1990
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The Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 24

1904 - 910 pages
...undesirable, as a rule, to express dissent, 1 feel bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for it. Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great...because of some accident of immediate overwhelming и interest which appeals to the feelings and 9 distorts the judgment. These immediate • interests...
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The Green Bag, Volume 16

1904 - 926 pages
...avoid the revealing of his social conscience any more than he can fail to exercise his literary art: "Great cases, like hard cases make bad law. For great...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously -was clear...
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Transactions, Volume 14

Maryland State Bar Association - 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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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 193

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1904 - 740 pages
...undesirable, as a rule, to express dissent, I feel bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for' it. Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests HOLMES, J., The CHIEF JUSTICE, WHITE, PECKHAM. JJ., dissenting. J93TL 6....
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Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin: Economics and political ..., Volume 1

1904 - 382 pages
...property. Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law, says Justice Holmes in his individual opinion ; for great cases are called great not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.51 It is by no means difficult to receive the suggestion of the influence of immediate overwhelming...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 67

1905 - 1074 pages
...highest court in the land in a famous case which has just been decided in that court: ''Great eases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great cases are...reason of their real importance in shaping the law for the future, but because of some question of an immediate, overwhelming interest which appeals to...
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A History of the Northern Securities Case

Balthasar Henry Meyer - 1906 - 152 pages
...property. Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law, says Justice Holmes in his individual opinion ; for great cases are called great not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.51 It is by no means difficult to receive the suggestion of the influence of immediate overwhelming...
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A History of the Northern Securities Case

Balthasar Henry Meyer - 1906 - 148 pages
...property. Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law, says Justice Holmes in his individual opinion ; for great cases are called great not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.51 It is by no means difficult to receive the suggestion of the influence of immediate overwhelming...
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Federal Anti-trust Decisions: Cases Decided in United States ..., Volume 3

1907 - 1252 pages
...undesirable, as a rule, to express dissent, I feel bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for it. Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great...immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelNOBTHEBN SECURITIES CO. V. UNITED STATES. 523 White, J., The Chief Justice, Peckham, Holmes, JJ.,...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 69

1907 - 402 pages
...evidenced by the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Holmes, when he said : " Great cases, like bard cases, make bad law. For great cases are called great,...immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feeling and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure,...
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