 He was fierce in questioning attorneys in court, and his votes and opinions on the bench reflect an ideology that has been notoriously difficult for popular journalists and legal scholars alike to pin down.He was seen as a disappointment by some Kennedy supporters who wished he had joined the more liberal wing of the court in its opinions on "Miranda v. Arizona" and "Roe v. Wade".White often took a narrow, fact-specific view of cases before the Court and generally refused to make broad pronouncements on constitutional doctrine or adhere to a specific judicial philosophy, preferring what he viewed as a practical approach to the law.