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" It must prejudice the occasional meritorious application to be buried in a flood of worthless ones. He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search. "
Who is on Trial?: Conflicts Between the Federal and State Judicial Systems ... - Page 158
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee - 1988 - 197 pages
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 344

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...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 344

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1953 - 912 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...
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Habeas Corpus: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 3 ... 84th Congress, 1st ...

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...
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Habeas Corpus: Subcommittee No. 3 on H.R. 5649

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...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 372

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...
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Crisis in the Federal Courts: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

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...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 412

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1974 - 1044 pages
...consequence of openended habeas review is reflected in the prescience of Mr. Justice Jackson's warning that "[i]t must prejudice the occasional meritorious application to be buried in a flood of worthless ones." 38 If these consequences flowed from the safeguarding of constitutional claims of innocence they should,...
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Habeas Corpus Procedures Amendments Act of 1981: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts - Constitutional law - 1982 - 206 pages
...be escaped by simple, rigid rules which, by avoiding some abuses, generate others. (Frankfurter, J.) It must prejudice the occasional meritorious application...attitude that the needle is not worth the search. „ (Jackson, J.) The problem has persisted across the next three decades. We can only approximate...
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Habeas Corpus Procedures Amendments Act of 1981: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts - Constitutional law - 1982 - 202 pages
...be escaped by simple, rigid rules which, by avoiding some abuses, generate others. (Frankfurter, J.) flood of worthless ones. He who must search a haystack...attitude that the needle is not worth the search. g (Jackson, J.) The problem has persisted across the next three decades. We can only approximate an...
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The Habeas Corpus Reform Act of 1982: Hearing Before the Committee on the ...

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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