SOURCE: "Introductory," in Mr. Justice Cardozo: A Liberal Mind in Action, Yorktown Press, 1935, pp. 7-20.

In the following excerpt from his full-length study of Cardozo's legal opinions, Pollard provides an overview of Cardozo's career and legal philosophy.

A gentle, modest man sits on the extreme left of the Chief Justice of the United States. As he listens intently to the arguments of counsel, he radiates an atmosphere of benevolence and wisdom. Everyone in the austere courtroom, judges and lawyers alike, pay him the homage of warm good-will and admiration bordering on awe. Confidence in the just decision dispels doubt. It is a feeling which could only be directed toward a man whose great talents in the law had been heralded far and wide before his accession to the high tribunal. Liberals and conservatives both see something to applaud in the record and attainments of Mr. Justice Cardozo: for...