This from mrv is worth highlighting:The recent articles focusing on the absence of memorable language from Souter's opinions to a certain extent missed that there are other measures of good argument besides pithy quotes. A line of reasoning should be persuasive because of its content...
David Souter
I've seen in several places that Souter, while an admirable justice, didn't produce a lot of memorable quotes. I suppose this is true. But his coruscating demolitions of the Rehnquist.
I have some thoughts up (with a somewhat misleading title) at Comment Is Free.
This isn't terribly surprising, at is well-known that Souter disliked life in D.C. and wasn't likely to stay on the Court as long as possible in the manner of the typical modern justice. Still, I wouldn't necessarily have expected him to be the first vacancy....