There was nothing stuffy about him and therefore, nothing stuffy about his writing.

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

No man who ever sat on the Supreme Court, it seems to me, mirrored the man in him in his judicial work more completely than did Justice Jackson

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 h…