Fact-finding in Inter-state Adjudication

All analogies are imperfect in this respect, and yet the whole of our reasoning from experience … is reasoning from extremely imperfect analogies between past and present occurrences. The question is not, are the conditions of the two problems the same? — for that may always be answered in the negative — but do they resemble each other closely enough for the old solution to be so modified as to apply to the new problem, or to suggest an analogous solution which may be applied to it?¹