Brett Kavanaugh was born February 12, 1965

[RJNorton]

In watching the hearings I've noticed Judge Kavanaugh's constant empahasis on finding precedents before making decisions in interpreting the law(s). I know this is common practice, but it's been mentioned over and over in these hearings.

As for Lincoln-Herndon:

"Historian Charles Strozier noted: One of Herndon’s important tasks in the partnership was to keep up the ‘Commonplace Book,’ or index to relevant precedents for the cases the firm handled. On one side of a large folio page Herndon listed the kinds of cases handled and then opposite it the relevant precedents and often extensive cross-referencing. “Trusts,” for example, shows six precedents and a cross-reference to “Real Estate.” The types of cases listed are remarkably specific in order to focus the precedent search, that is, “County seat removal,” or “Vagrants,” or “Burial Ground Dead.” It is not an orderly book but it was crucial to the operation of the firm, the heart and soul of the office, and it is all in Herndon’s hand. To keep it up-to-date, he spent many hours poring through texts that were kept in the office and others he read under the whale-oil lamp in the State Law Library. The “Commonplace Book” was one key to the success of Lincoln-Herndon and gave substance to the garrulous and often witty arguments Lincoln presented to juries. Herndon was the reader of the firm, it might be said, and Lincoln the thinker."

http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/...d-the-law/