Court Opinion

ID: 9750184
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 14:31:08.574141+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:26:03.781929
License: Public Domain

Concurring Opinion by
Mr. Justice Roberts:
In joining the opinion of the Court I desire to express my strong disagreement with any rule of court which subordinates the quality of justice to the hazards of arbitrary insistence upon an “assembly-line” disposition of cases. Such inflexibility neither serves the interests of justice nor advances the proper objectives of effective court administration. As was so eloquently stated by Judge Jerome Frank: “The law is not a machine and the judges not machine-tenders. There never was and there never will be a body of fixed and predetermined rules alike for all. The acts of human beings are not identical mathematical entities; the individual cannot be eliminated as, in algebraic equations, equal quantities on the two sides can be cancelled. Life rebels against all efforts at legal over-simplification. . . . To do justice, to malee any legal system acceptable to society, the abstract preestablished rules have to be adapted and adjusted, the static formulas made alive.” Jerome Frank, Law and the Modern Mind, p. 120.
Mr. Justice Nix and Mr. Justice Manderino join in this concurring opinion.