Langdell’s legal-science ideas made late-century legal scholarship inbred and free of social commentary.

Evidence

Common-​law thought, in and out of universities, was isolated and inbred. Langdell’s ideas of “legal science” formed the dominant culture of legal scholarship, or shaped a common frame of mind. Few text writers indulged in social commentary, or any commentary at all. — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3584

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the Langdell legal-science thread from ch90-91 by showing its isolating effect on all legal scholarship. — connects to: Langdell conceived law as a science whose primary sources are printed cases — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3519; Langdell’s curriculum excluded statutory and constitutional law as unscientific — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3528; Langdell’s legal science was geometric deduction from cases, not empirical observation — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3543