 His jurisprudence has sometimes been praised for adhering to the doctrine of judicial restraint.Frequently a critic of the doctrine of "substantive due process", which involves the judiciary reading substantive content into the term "liberty" in the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment, White's first published opinion as a Supreme Court Justice, a sole dissent in "Robinson v. California" (1962), foreshadowed his career-long distaste for the doctrine.In "Robinson", he criticized the remainder of the Court's unprecedented expansion of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment" to strike down a California law providing for civil commitment of drug addicts.