Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes


What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.


Citations

Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. Columbia University Press, 1928, p. 29.

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Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo
  • Born: May 24, 1870
  • Died: July 9, 1938
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Judge

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was an American jurist who served on the New York Court of Appeals and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in addition to his philosophy and vivid prose style. Cardozo served on the Supreme Court six years, from 1932 until his death in 1938. Many of his landmark decisions were delivered during his eighteen-year tenure on the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court of that state.