He spent weeks circulating antipigeon propaganda and dropping seed laced with spermicide through the local streets and parks.

In the present day, New England's stonewalls are the lineaments of her former agrarian vitality. They outline what used to be farm roads, fields, barnyards, pens, cellars, dooryards, empoundments, millraces, bridges, culverts, and graves. […] Stonewalls both preserve and evince the structuring presence of the past. They offer weft to the warp of the land.

We take this step not because this Court's criminal procedure rulings are somehow unimportant.... Instead, we abandon Teague's test because it poses a question this Court has no business asking.

They had simply to acknowledge the corn, round up, and — vamoose; then, so soon as the soldiers had gone back to the fort, there was no law to prevent their returning.