The article examines written judicial opinions that contain references to novels by Charles Dickens. U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s opinion cited the novel "Bleak House" in Stern v. Marshall. Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's concurrence in Davis v. Ayala used a vignette from the novel "A Tale of Two Cities." The Georgia Court of Appeals quoted Dickens in "Oliver Twist" in Walton v. State.