"The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth."
Benjamin N. Cardozo was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1932 to 1938. He is widely cited for influential opinions in tort, contract, and constitutional law.