But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, the result of following them must often be failure and confusion from the merely logical point of view.


"Common Carriers and the Common Law", 13 Am. Law Rev. 608, 630 (1879)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, ...

But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, ...

But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, ...

But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, ...