tipsy coachmanの例文
- The "'Tipsy Coachman "'doctrine is a rule of law that upholds, in a higher court, a correct conclusion despite flawed reasoning by the judge in a lower court.
- The colorful " tipsy coachman " label comes from a 19th-century Georgia case, Lee v . Porter, 63 Ga 345, 346 ( 1879 ), in which the Georgia Supreme Court, noting that the " human mind is so constituted that in many instances it finds the truth when wholly unable to find the way that leads to it, " quoted from Oliver Goldsmith's " Retaliation : A Poem " written in 1774: