I’m sick and tired of hearing about the number of cases disposed of when we discuss the judicial system. The chief justice should know that the job of the courts is not to dispose of cases but to decide them justly. Doesn’t he know the business of courts is justice.
Case Quotes
You don’t approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win.
Of every hundred cases, ninety win themselves, three are won by advocacy, and seven are lost by advocacy.
Cases were decided in the chambers of a six-shooter instead of a supreme court.
General propositions do not decide concrete cases.
This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff’s case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.
I have betrayed myself with my own tongue; The case is altered.
Every case stands upon its own bottom.
My wonder is really boundless, That among the queer cases we try, A land-case should often be ground-less, And a water-case always be dry.
A rotten case abides no handling. (Henry IV)
