Since at least the publication of The Adventures of You: Sugarcane Island in 1969, young readers of choose-you-own-adventure stories have been able to make decisions that determine the plot by following instructions about which page to turn to. As for the argument that [graphically violent] video games enable participation in that violent action, that seems to us more a matter of degree than of kind.

[T]he presumption against extraterritorial application would be a craven watchdog indeed if it retreated to its kennel whenever some domestic activity is involved in the case. The concurrence seems to imagine just such a timid sentinel, but our cases are to the contrary.

The Constitution is not, unlike the Miranda majority, offended by a criminal’s commendable qualm of conscience or fortunate fit of stupidity. Today’s judgment converts Miranda from a milestone of judicial overreaching into the very Cheops’ Pyramid (or perhaps the Sphinx would be a better analogue) of judicial arrogance.

As far as it appears (and as seems overwhelmingly likely), [these] simply reflect the fact that Erie had recently been having a public nudity problem not with streakers, sunbathers, or hot-dog vendors, but with lap dancers.

A trust without a res can no more be created by legislative decree than can a pink rock-candy mountain.

I guess the one that created the most waves of disagreement was Bush v. Gore. It comes up all the time, and my usual response is, ‘Get over it.’

Notwithstanding “[t]he myth of an era of unrestricted immigration” in the first 100 years of the Republic, the States enacted numerous laws restricting the immigration of certain classes of aliens, including … (in Southern States) freed blacks. State laws not only provided for the removal of unwanted immigrants but also imposed penalties on unlawfully present aliens and those who aided their immigration.

To tell the truth, it was most likely expressive of what most inaction ordinarily expresses: nothing at all.