Idolator
Bob Dylan is the most-cited musician in judicial opinions with 26 quoted lines, according to an article on the uses and misuses of popular music in legal writing by Alex B. Long. Rounding out the top seven of Long's predictably boomer-rock-centric list: Paul Simon and/or Simon & Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Grateful Dead (!), and Joni Mitchell. [NYT]
rule of sevens
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Watch out for that "!"
And your point was ... ?
Ah yes, who can forget the Garcia/Hunter quote in the landmark dissent in "Planned Parenthood v. Casey:"
"Mirror shatters
in formless reflections
of matter
Glass hand dissolving
to ice petal flowers
revolving"
@okiedoke: drugs are bad?
@Maura Johnston:
** The Grateful Dead are bad
<_<
Ludacris, meanwhile, will probably be in "Also Receiving Votes" for the foreseeable future:
[patentlaw.typepad.com]
(footnote, page 2)
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