Frasi di Benjamin N. Cardozo
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Benjamin Nathan Cardozo è stato giudice associato della Corte suprema degli Stati Uniti d'America dal 1932 al 1938.

Assieme a Louis Brandeis e Harlan Fiske Stone fu uno dei "Tre Moschettieri", i membri liberali della Corte che dal 1932 al 1937 generalmente sostennero il New Deal del Presidente Franklin Delano Roosevelt.



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✵ 24. Maggio 1870 – 9. Luglio 1938
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Benjamin N. Cardozo: Frasi in inglese

“Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.”

Richard v. Credit Suisse, 242 N.Y. 346, 351 (N.Y. 1926)
Judicial opinions

“Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.”

In re Rouss, 221 N.Y. 81, 84 (N.Y. 1917)
Judicial opinions

“Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.”

Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (N.Y. 1928), describing the fiduciary duties inherent in a partnership.
Judicial opinions

“Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.”

Wagner v. International Railway Co., 232 N.Y. 13 (N.Y. 1926), setting forth the rescue doctrine which holds negligent parties liable not only for injury to the victim, but to those who attempt to rescue the victim.
Judicial opinions

“The defendant styles herself "a creator of fashions." Her favor helps a sale. Manufacturers of dresses, millinery and like articles are glad to pay for a certificate of her approval. The things which she designs, fabrics, parasols and what not, have a new value in the public mind when issued in her name. She employed the plaintiff to help her to turn this vogue into money.”

Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, 222 N.Y. 88, 91; 118 N.E. 214 (N.Y. 1917). This opening paragraph has been debated among legal practitioners, some of whom take its tone to be a sly rebuke by Cardozo of a profession which he considered to have an exaggerated influence.
Judicial opinions

“Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.”

"The Game of the Law" In Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931), p. 163
Other writings

“Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.”

West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (No.2), 294 U.S. 79, 82, (1935)
Judicial opinions

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