Casebook Quote of the Day

I love it when judges try to get all poetical in their opinions.

Although the past decisions hover over the issue in the somewhat wispy form of the figures of a Chagall painting, we can abstract from those decisions a clear and simple rule.

Matthew Oscar Tobriner, on living in sin. 18 Cal. 3d 660, 557 P.2d 106 (1976)