Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar might be the current court member most likely to turn a memorable phrase. Besides employing Homeric and Shakespearean references, Justice Cuéllar last year paraphrased a statute as defining grand theft to include stealing “more than $250 worth of the crops or critters” listed in the statute.
A week ago in the Yelp case — Hassell v. Bird — Justice Cuéllar was at it again. In his dissent, he criticized a comparison in the plurality opinion as being “a contrast between apples and oranges — or apples and Oreos, for that matter.”