Legal Opinion
People v. Pearson
Criminal Court of the City of New York
Decided March 8, 1976PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtM. Marvin Berger, J.
In 1725 the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico, wrote: "Men of limited ideas take for law what the words expressly say. Intelligent men take for law whatever impartial utility dictates in each case.” (The New Science, Book I, Axioms 319, 323.)
Vico’s pragmatism had been preshadowed by earlier pronouncements; for example, St. Paul, who, in Second Corinthi*1030ans III 6, said: "Not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
And Rabbi Johannon, one of the sages of the Babylonian Talmud, wrote: "Jerusalem was destroyed because her inhabitants interpreted…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Walden v. . City of JamestownNew York Court of Appeals · 1904
- Verona Central Cheese Co. v. . MurtaughNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Morgan v. . HedstromNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Standard Accident Insurance v. NewmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1944
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3Cited by3 opinions
- People v. VigilSupreme Court of Colorado · 1988
- In re Robert M.New York Supreme Court · 1979
- People v. WilliamsCriminal Court of the City of New York · 1982