Victorious litigants often demobilize and lose the long political contest.

Evidence

The Pro-Life Response When a supporter went to the pro-choice headquarters in New York after Roe was decided, she found it shut tight with a sign posted that they had won and that everyone had gone home.*? This typified the response of pro-choice groups, who assumed that Roe had won the battle and that the courts would repel any efforts to restrict a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3119

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with scholarship on litigation as a double-edged strategy that can demobilize a movement’s base.
• APHORISMS: A lesson about winning the case and losing the fight; courts resolve disputes, they don’t end movements.