id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ee5n3holgvbzvoey433hlltuw4 Patrick J. Kelley Holmes, Langdell and Formalism 2002 26 .pdf application/pdf 12990 804 61 Mill, which led him to attempt to reduce legal rules and doctrines to scientific laws Holmes and Langdell concluded that judges ought to decide a case by applying the the law and decided cases by applying technical legal doctrine with syllogistic law to buy and study the book," and praised the organization of the casebook, which arranged the cases first according to significant legal doctrines evidently saw as complementary to his project both Langdell's overall arrangement of the law of contracts in terms of legal doctrines and legal principles Holmes (1880, 234) criticized Langdell's purely logical approach to the determination and application of legal doctrine. 4. Holmes's Lectures on Contract in The Common Law Holmes's contract lectures was not Langdell's doctrinalism but Frederick Finally, Holmes's theory of common law development in Lecture I of The Common Core of Legalism in Holmes and Langdell ./cache/work_ee5n3holgvbzvoey433hlltuw4.pdf ./txt/work_ee5n3holgvbzvoey433hlltuw4.txt