COURTS OF LAW

Related Subjects: Judge, Judgment, Jury, Justice, Law, Lawyers, Trials

1. The history of the Supreme Court is not the history of an abstraction, but the analysis of individuals acting as a Court who make decisions and lay down doctrines, and of other individuals, their successors, who refine, modify, and sometimes even overrule the decisions of their predecessors, reinterpreting and transmuting their doctrines.—JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, Law and Politics
   

2. The charge is prepar'd, the lawyers are met,
   The judges all ranged, a terrible show!—JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
   

3. A dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence, of a future day, when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting judge believes the court to have been betrayed. Nor is this appeal always in vain. In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.—CHARLES EVANS HUGHES
   

4. Go not in and out in the court of justice, that thy name may not stink.—The Wisdom of Ann