The author of the books Paradoxes of Legal Science and Law and Literature, along with Brandeis and Stone he voted to uphold much of the New Deal legislation though many of his decisions are now considered antiquated.
He described himself as "a plodding mediocrity", since "a mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one can go a great distance". His father had resigned from the New York Supreme Court under threat of impeachment for nepotism. The author of the books Paradoxes of Legal Science and Law and Literature, along with Brandeis and Stone he voted to uphold much of the New Deal legislation though many of his decisions are now considered antiquated. The author of the court's opinion in the cases upholding Social Security, this is, for 10 points, what Jewish member of the court who replaced Holmes in 1932 and died in 1938
He described himself as "a plodding mediocrity", since "a mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one can go a great distance".
Benjamin Cardozo