The following excerpt is from Reid v. Board of Education of City of New York, 453 F.2d 238 (2nd Cir. 1971):
Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 404, 5 L.Ed. 257 (1821). But this precept, unlike other landmark decisions of the Chief Justice concerning federal jurisdiction, has not withstood the demands of federalism and the complexities of constitutional adjudication.
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