When there is no case in point.

• Jurisdiction: United States

Section 51. When there is no case in point.—When there is no case in point, either in the Supreme Court or in some lower Federal court, you must draw on other resources. You must have recourse, first of all, to analysis. If you have nothing but logic and reasoning to support and sustain your analysis, by all means use logic. But usually there is available something more than simply your own process of reasoning. There are almost always analogies to which you can profitably turn. Frequently you can make...