Explaining High-Profile Coverage of State Supreme Court Decisions*

2010 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 704-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Vining ◽  
Teena Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
High Profile ◽  
State Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Decisions

The House that Built Holmes

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-721
Author(s):  
Brad Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Cultural Icon ◽  
Oliver Wendell Holmes ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Supreme Court Decisions ◽  
Canonical Status

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is one of the few modern judges whose reputations have survived the twentieth century's culture wars relatively intact. Among his contemporaries Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand, Holmes was the first to become a judicial and cultural icon. Although Holmes's judicial reputation has fluctuated wildly since his death, his canonical status is unquestioned. His opinions, like those of Brandeis, are often quoted in high-profile Supreme Court decisions. Popular historians continue to be fascinated with his life story.

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