Court Opinion

ID: 9418884
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:42:09.308566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:12.573985
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Stone and Mr. Justice Cardozo
concurring in the result:
We think the opinion of Mr. Justice Brandéis states the law as it ought to be, though we appreciate the weight of precedent that has now accumulated against it. If the opinion of the Court did no more than accept those precedents and follow them, we might' be moved to acquiescence. More, however, has been attempted. The opinion reexamines the foundations of the rule that it declares, and finds them to be firm and. true: We will not go so'far. *94The doctrine of stare decisis, however appropriate and even necessary at times, has only a limited application in the field of constitutional law. See the cases collected by Brandéis, J., dissenting, in Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co., 285 U. S. 393, 407, 408. If the challenged doctrine is to be reconsidered, we are unwilling to approve it.
For the reasons stated by Mr. Justice Brandéis the decree should be affirmed.