English / proverb
Bad Facts Make Bad Law
MEANING IN ENGLISH
Extreme, emotionally charged, or anomalous cases can induce courts to establish distorted legal precedents.
In context
01
The senior judge cautioned that sympathy in extreme situations must not override legal logic, because bad facts make bad law.
02
Enacting a sweeping nationwide regulation based on a single bizarre incident proved that bad facts make bad law.
Synonyms
Hard cases make bad law,flawed precedents from exceptional facts,skewed jurisprudence
Antonyms
Equitable jurisprudence,balanced legal doctrine,sound principles
Collocations
warn that bad facts make bad law,maxim that bad facts make bad law,demonstrate that bad facts make bad law