"The Greatest Justices" List

[Paul Finkelman]

Sandy (the ballplayer that is) had enough wins, strikeout, greart seasons to
qualify; Benji did not.  Unfortuantely, for Benji, his best years were in the
minor leagues in Albany!

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"Richard D. Friedman" wrote:

> Oh, I may not disagree with Sandy that Cardozo doesn't belong in the top
> 15, whatever the top 15 is supposed to mean, because the brevity of his
> term certainly did limit his aggregate impact.  I was really responding to
> the substance of Sandy's comment on Cardozo, which seemed to reflect a
> common perception of his time on the Court.  I think Cardozo's Supreme
> Court career was brilliant though short.  How you put that in historical
> rankings seems to me as imponderable as how to rate the equally brilliant,
> also short (at least in its brilliant phase) career of another New York
> Jew, Sandy Koufax.  (I don't know whether Cardozo was a lefty.)
>
> Rich
>
> At 06:15 PM 3/7/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >Rich Friedman writes:
> >
> > >People always say that, and I don't think it's really true.  He had a great
> > >-- though very short -- tenure on the US S Ct.  Panama Refining dissent,
> > >Schechter concurrence (which I think had impact on the Jones & Laughlin
> > >majority opinion), Carter Coal dissent, major behind-the-scenes impact on
> > >the majority opinion in Blaisdell.  C. 1991, Cardozo L. Rev., I wrote a
> > >review (of Posner's book on him) titled "Legendary Judge, Underrate
> > Justice".
> > >
> >Surely Rich is right, but whom would he bounce from the list to make space
> >for C. among the top 15.
> >
> >sandy

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