text: "--"Seventy-eight cases!" said Lord Mansfield; "you can never have our pardon if you cite seventy-eight cases!" After the court had given its decision which was against the sergeant's client Lord Mansfield said "Now brother Hill that the judgment is given you can have no objections on account of your client to tell us your real opinion and whether you do not think we are right; you know how we all value your opinion and judgment