It is my hope that the bar, individually and through its legal journals, will follow closely the work of this Court. They can perform a most valuable function in weighing individual cases against the dichotomatic concept of military justice and tell the public, the services and us, the judges, whether we are performing properly our task of enunciating principles worthy of existence in this relatively new field of law.

— Robert E. Quinn, Chief Judge, United States Court of Military Appeals
The Court’s Responsibility, 6 Vand. L. Rev. 161, 162 (1953)