Union Oil Co. of California v. United States

I join in the decision of the court but I question its approach to the problem before it. "When the United States Supreme Court elects to take a case on certiorari, receives briefs, hears oral argument, and puts out a decision including a signed opinion, it seems to me it is entitled to expect that •it has created a precedent that lower Federal courts will follow over a wide area. Diligence by them in reducing the authority of such a holding to its own peculiar facts, is hardly to be reconciled with the place of the Supreme Court in our judicial system.

Here we have a decision,…