Larson v. Domestic and Foreign Commerce Corp.

Mr. Justice Frankfurter,

with whom

Mr. Justice ■ Burton concurs, dissenting.

Case-by-case adjudication gives to the judicial process the impact of actuality and thereby saves it. from the hazards of generalizations insufficiently nourished by *706experience. There is, hQWever, an attendant weakness to a system that purports to pass merely on what are deemed to be the particular circumstances of a case. Consciously or unconsciously the pronouncements in an opinion too often exceed the justification of the .circumstances on which they are based, or; contrariwise, judicial preoccupation with the claims…