Until recently, courts and scholars, taking the position that privity was routinely required, quoted the view of a leading barrister of his day, Lord Henry Brougham.

The court attached great weight to the advice delivered by Lord Lowry, and in particular to the final paragraph, at p. 535, already quoted.

"It is good that the birth went well," a court official quoted Emperor Akihito, the baby's grandfather, as saying upon hearing the news.

The court quoted the following statement from the plaintiff's affidavit:

Last February, the court quoted the 1972 decision in overturning a law banning loitering in public transportation terminals.

The court next quoted extensively from Chief Justice John Marshall's opinion in Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823).

The court ruled that the copyright on the manuscripts was violated, and wrote, quoting from the above case:

The court quoted an important precedent, Tippins v. Walker.

The court quoted the finding in Salinger v. Random House when denying a petition for rehearing.

In part of the judgment, the court focused on several creationist/intelligent design texts and quoted Behe's testimony against the plaintiffs: