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"The timorous may stay at home."

Cardozo, J.

Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement Co.

250 N.Y. 479, 483, 166 N.E. 173, 174 (1929).

#Cardozo #torts #1920s #New York #New York Court of Appeals #NYC #Coney Island

"American lawyers engaged in discovery have never been accused of asking for too little. To the contrary, like the Rolling Stones, they hope that if they ask for what they want, they will get what they need."

Facciola, United States Magistrate Judge

McPeek v. Ashcroft

202 F.R.D. 31, 33-34 (D.D.C. 2001)

#2000s #Civil Procedure #D.D.C.#music #pop culture #Rolling Stones #discovery #ediscovery

"Cause and effect find their beginning and end in the limitless and unknowable."

Powell, J.

Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Daniels

Court of Appeals of Georgia, 1911

8 Ga.App. 755

#torts #train torts #philosopy #infinite regression #Georgia #1910s #law

"There is one heresy in the judicial forum which appears to be Hydra-headed, and although cut off again and again, has the characteristic of an endless removal."

Griffith, Justice

Kramer Serv., Inc. v. Wilkins

184 Miss. 483, 496 (1939)

#Mississippi #torts #negligence #causation #Greek mythology #1930s

"Women do a great deal of shopping. They sometimes shop all day in their favorite stores and fail to make a single purchase."

Wendell, J.

Campbell v. Weathers

153 Kan. 316, 321 (1941)

#torts #real property #liability #Kansas #1940s

"The inherent nature of the game of baseball, however, is such as to require the landowner to take reasonable precautions for the protection of the traveling public."

Wolcott, Judge

Salevan v. Wilmington Park, Inc.,

72 A.2d 239, 243 (1950)

#torts #Delaware #baseball #1950s #law #land

"At the rate we are going, perhaps the day will come when the federal government will see fit to prosecute the robbery of a child's roadside lemonade stand because the lemons came from California, the sugar was refined in Philadelphia, and the paper cups were manufactured in China."

Torruella, Circuit Judge, concurring.

United States v. Jimenez-Torres

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

435 F.3d 3 (2006)

#First Circuit #Judge Howard #Hobbs Act #2000s #Peurto Rico #Interstate Commerce #Federal Crime #Criminal Law

"[T]he judge should take pains neither to use an elephant gun to slay a mouse nor to wield a cardboard sword if a dragon looms."

Seyla, Circuit Judge

Anderson v. Beatrice Foods Co.

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1990

900 F.2d 388

#Seyla #1st Circuit #1990s #Civil Procedure

"A drunken man is as much entitled to a safe street, as a sober one, and much more in need of it."

Heydenfeldt, J.

Robinson v. Pioche, Bayerque & Co.

Supreme Court of California, 1885

5 Cal. 460

#torts #humorous #Heydenfeldt #California #1880s

The accused, if he does not will the violation, usually is in a position to prevent it with no more care than society might reasonably expect and no more exertion than it might reasonably exact from one who assumed his responsibilities.

Jackson, J.

Morissette v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States, 1952

342 U.S. 246, 256

#SCOTUS #Justice Jackson #1950s

This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law --in a most bizarre setting.

Carlin, Justice

Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.

City Court of New York, New York County, 1941

27 N.Y.S.2d 198.

#City Court of New York #New York #1940s #Carlin

"In view of these circumstances, Rio Grande could not have been besieged with any Hamlet-like doubts regarding the existence of a contract."