I\u2019ve been doing some work lately as an expert witness, so I found the following factoid quite interesting. The most commonly quoted song lyric in judicial opinions is from Bob Dylan\u2019s Subterranean Homesick Blues: \u201cYou don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.\u201d How do I know this? The law professor Alex B. Long is described as the leading expert on music citations in judicial opinions, and his analysis can be found in an article in yesterday\u2019s New York Times. Couple this with Arthur C. Clarke\u2019s fourth law (\u201cFor every expert there is an equal and opposite expert\u201d) and we see that, especially in a court of law, two expert weathermen will generally tell you the wind is blowing in opposite directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ve been doing some work lately as an expert witness, so I found the following factoid quite interesting. The most commonly quoted song lyric in judicial opinions is from Bob Dylan\u2019s Subterranean Homesick Blues: \u201cYou don\u2019t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.\u201d How do I know this? The law professor Alex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}