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Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Jerome Frank

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.

Jerome Frank

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

Jerome Frank

True, no man can be wholly apart from his fellows. But, if each of us is a promontory, yet the promontory reaches out beyond the social mainland to a point where others cannot intrude. Beyond that point lies an unexplorable lonesomeness, a unique privacy. It is a no-other-man's land, for others can't penetrate it, can't communicate with it.

Jerome Frank

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Jerome Frank

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

Jerome Frank

Jerome Frank

Jerome Frank

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Born: September 10, 1889

Died: January 13, 1957 (aged 67)

Bio: Jerome New Frank was a legal philosopher who played a leading role in the legal realism movement, and a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Known for:

Law and the modern mind (1930)
Courts on trial (1949)
THE PEOPLE OF NEW EAST CITY
Not Guilty (1957)

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