Do great cases make bad law?
By: Lackland H. Bloom, Jr
Series: Oxford scholarship online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199366903
Subjects: Constitutional law; Cases; Political questions and judicial power; United States. Supreme Court; United States
Description: Justice Holmes proclaimed that 'great cases, like hard cases make bad law'. He explained that this was so because the 'hydraulic pressures' of the great case tend to distort the judgements of the justices. The purpose of this book is to examine 25 great cases that arose throughout the history of the Supreme Court and to attempt to determine whether Holmes was correct. More particularly, the book discusses the impact that the greatness of the case may have had on its presentation to the Court, the Court's deliberations, the decision, the opinion and the law that was created.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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