There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.