Is the Judiciary Branch switching formats to all poetry, all the time?

Last week Chief Justice John Roberts quoted Dylan.  Not Dylan Thomas — Bob Dylan.

From Rolling Stone

Chief Justice John Roberts quoted  Bob Dylan in a dissenting opinion yesterday — and nearly got it correct. In a case of regarding the ability of collection agencies to sue customers when they have no financial stake in the matter, our first boomer Chief Justice wrote: “The absence of any right to the substantive recovery means that respondents cannot benefit from the judgment they seek and thus lack Article III standing. ‘When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.’ Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone, on Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia Records 1965).” The clerk who checked the quote technically got it right, since the official lyrics on Dylan’s website do phrase it like that. But anyone who has actually heard the song on the record or in concert knows the actual line is “when you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”

Now, it’s the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit going all poetic on us.
From today’s Washington Post’s story on the court’s opinion that tribunals and courts must be able to assess whether evidence is reliable before determining the fate of detainees:

The judges were particularly concerned with government assertions that the evidence was reliable because it was repeated in separate documents and that officials would not have included the information if it were not dependable.

“Lewis Carroll notwithstanding, the fact the government has ’said it thrice’ does not make an allegation true,” wrote Judge Merrick B. Garland, quoting from Carroll’s poem “The Hunting of the Snark.”

Great to see the court hunting snark.  In that snarky vein, we sure hope their next opinion begins, “There once was a girl from Nantucket.”