No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.