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Topic·Wolf in sheep's clothing✕clear

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep's clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf.

Antonin Scalia

Morrison v. Olsen · 1988

★ 1.0

Play · Comedy (play)

O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure · 1616

★ 3.5

Sonnet · Poem

I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 5.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Jesus

Matthew 7:15 · 60

★ 5.5

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