To an unusual degree in the history of the Court, Justice Jackson wrote as he felt. In his case the style was the man:.He wrote as he talked and he talked as he felt. The fact that his opinions were written talk made them as lively as the liveliness of his talk.

He will live in the living law of the Constitution.

He had 'impish candor', to borrow one of his own phrases. Candor, indeed, was one of his deepest veins.

Nature had given him a bright, strong mind--it was one of the best three or four, possibly five, of the Court during his years of service. It was a disciplined…