...actions, our HhprMps are truly endangered. In the Northern Securities case,— Mr. Justice Balmes told us: Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. For great...real importance in shaping the law of the future, but *er~*w of some accident of imnediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts...

...Northern Securities case,— / Mr. Justice Holmes told us: Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. Cor great cases are called great not by reason of their...law of the future, but because of some accident of in-mediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These in-mediate...

...Marllern Securities case,— Mr. Justice Balnea told us: Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law. Bar great cases are called great not by reason of their...importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of seme accident of intnediate overwhelming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment....

...law. Fur great cases arc called great nut by reason of their real importance in shaping the law ut the future, but because of some accident of immediate...immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well-settled principles...

...lolmes told us: (ireat eases, like hard cases, make bad law. I or great eases are called great not bv reason of their real importance in shaping the law...of some accident of immediate overwhelming interest « hieh appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a kind...

...Justice I lolmes told us: (ireat cases, like hard cases, make bail law. For great cases are called grejl not by reason of their real importance in shaping...future, but because of some accident of immediate ovcru helming interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment. These immediate interests...

...lolmes told us: (iri-at cases, like hard cases, nuke bail law. For great cases are called great not l>y reason of their real importance in shaping the law of the future, bin liecause of some accident of immediate oven* helming interest which appeals to the feelings and...

...District Court lacked jurisdiction over Texaco's complaint in the first instance. As Justice Holmes observed: "Great cases like hard cases make bad law....appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment." Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 US 197, 400 (1904) (dissenting opinion). The history...

...Defending his approach at length, he wrote that cases like Northern Securities can generate bad law because of "some accident of immediate overwhelming...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment." The actual judicial task was simple: "What we have to do in this case is to find the meaning of some...

...precipitated the Northern Securities case, Holmes felt, were what had made it a "great" case. Such cases were "called great, not by reason of their real importance...immediate interests exercise a kind of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well settled principles...