| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1953 - 894 pages
...York, 443 JACKSON, J., concurring in result. they have, as a class, become peculiarly undeserving.9 It must prejudice the occasional meritorious application...attitude that the needle is not worth the search. Nor is it any answer to say that few of these petitions in any court really result in the discharge... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Habeas corpus - 1955 - 144 pages
...our own disposition of habeas corpus matters, they have, as a class, become peculiarly undeserving. It must prejudice the occasional meritorious application...attitude that the needle is not worth the search. Nor is it any answer to say that few of these petitions in any court really result in the discharge... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1959 - 306 pages
...class, become -(peculiarly undeserving. It must prejudice the occasional meritorious applicay ition to be buried in a flood of worthless ones. He who must search a haystack nor a. needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the 1 search. Nor... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1963 - 972 pages
...548, 86th Cong., 1st Sess. 37. CLARK, J., dissenting. 372 US as my Brother Jackson said, they will "be buried in a flood of worthless ones. He who must...attitude that the needle is not worth the search." Brown v. Allen, 344 US 443, 537 (1953) (concurring opinion). In fact, the courts are already swamped... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1967 - 730 pages
...applications, almost all of which are unjustified, it is easy to say, in the words of Justice Jackson, that "he who must search a haystack for a needle is likely...attitude that the needle is not worth the search." But to that remark Jusice Walter V. Schaefer had the classic answer: "it is not a needle we are looking... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Criminal procedure - 1982 - 368 pages
...face of competing demands. A fourth consideration is Justice Jackson's never refuted observation that "[i]t must prejudice the occasional meritorious application to be buried in a flood of worthless ones."2s The thought may be distasteful but no judge can honestly deny it is real. Finally, there is... | |
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