...Rutledge used as the text for his dissent a well-known quotation from the author of Shipp, Holmes himself: "Great cases like hard cases make bad law. For great...the judgment. These immediate interests exercise a land of hydraulic pressure which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even...

...can be seen projected into such later comments as the familiar Northern Securities dissent (1903) : 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...

...effective judicial analysis. "Great cases make bad law," he wrote in his Northern Securities dissent. "For great cases are called great, not by reason of...interest which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment."24 Holmes was strikingly detached from politics. He never read a newspaper during his tenure...

..."great cases, like hard cases, make bad law." (Holmes explained that in that passage he meant that "some accident of immediate overwhelming interest...appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment." Before such pressures, "even well settled principles of law will bend."102) Applying the Master's insight,...

...undesirable, as a rule, to express dissent, I feel bound to do so in this case and to give my reasons for it. 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...

...only if there is no reasonable basis for it. [. . .] "Great cases," it is appropriate to remember, to the aliens who have been which makes what previously was clear seem doubtful, and before which even well settled principles...