The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay,… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their… — Benjamin N. Cardozo Copy Share Image
