...the court is to be guided by equitable considerations.7 Justice Holmes in a dissent once said that: Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called * Member of the California Bar. 1. 11 USC §§501-676 (1970). 2. 11 USC §§ 701-799 (1970). 3. 11...

...court tend to be applied to achieve desired results. 16 • The Business Lawyer; Vol. 30, November 1974 great, not by reason of their real importance in shaping...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment.8 To a large extent, case law concerning the restraint of creditors in bankruptcy proceedings...

...went on to observe the dangers inherent when "some accident of immediate overwhelming interest . . . appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment....immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well settled principles...

...went on to observe the dangers inherent when "some accident of immediate overwhelming interest . . . appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment....immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well settled principles...

...in shaping the law of the future, but because of some accident of immediate overwhelming interests which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment....immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well settled principles...

...others, dissented, arguing in a famous phrase, "Great cases. like hard cases, make bad law. For freat cases are called great, not by reason of their real...appeals to the feelings and distorts the Judgment." 193 US at 400. "Every railroad monopolizes. In a popular sense, the trade of some area," Justice Holmes...

...the hydraulic pressure of revolution forces such cases into the court? If such trials are the product of "immediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment," that is merely good evidence that the law and the courts cannot escape working amidst the conflicts...

...our liberties are truly endangered. In the Northern Securities case,44 Mr. Justice Holmes told us: Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great...immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well-settled principles...

...his famous dissenting opinion in Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 US 197, 400 (1904): "Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great...immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well settled principles...

...Northern Securities caae,—/ tt. Justice Balnes told us: Great cases, lite hard cases, make bad low. For great cases are called great not by reason of...immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure t4uch makes what previously vas clear seem doubtful, and before which even well-settled principles...