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 A Century of Federal Judicature. logic they are equal to the best judgments of Marshall; for luniinousness and method they stand beside those of Mansfield; in ele gance of style they yield the palm only to the prize cases of Lord Stowell; but in fullness of

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be taken as a typical specimen, the fullness of illustration and wealth and variety of learn ing became almost oppressive. However in structive as historical disquisitions, as judi cial opinions they are too diffuse. His COD-

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illustration and wealth and variety of learn ing they stand alone." His opinion in the Girard will case, for instance, leaves little to be desired, from whatever point of view it may be surveyed. In many of his circuit court cases, of which De Lovio v. Boit, may

curring opinion in Dartmouth College v. Woodward affords a good opportunity to compare his judicial style and method with Marshall's. But if there were some among his con temporaries who were not inferior to him. if