Justice Holmes's dissent in Lochner v. New York was hailed as the best exposition of

Sociological jurisprudence is the classification praised here. Roscoe Pound described Holmes’s Lochner dissent as an outstanding example of adjusting legal reasoning to human and social conditions rather than deducing results from abstract assumptions. Holmes resisted treating a particular economic theory as a constitutional command; his influence on legal realism does not change the specific description in this question.