Appellate Courts Quotes

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

(Dissents are) appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

It is needless to enter into many reasons for quashing the conviction, when one alone is sufficient.

Attorney addressing the Supreme Court: I would like to remind you gentlemen of a legal point. Justice O’Connor: Would you like to remind me, too?

If no appeal were possible… this would not be a desirable country to live in.