| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3 | The History Cooperative

*Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court*. By James W. Hewitt. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. ix + 192 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography. $45.00.)
Scholarly attention to state supreme courts has been relatively sparse compared to the voluminous works devoted to the United States Supreme Court. James W. Hewitt's Slipping Backward provides an excellent addition to the scholarship of state supreme courts and is the first major work dedicated to a state supreme court of the Great Plains. Hewitt examines the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1935–1995, a history in which four Nebraska chief justices left their respective marks on Nebraska jurisprudence. Specifically, the history primarily includes rich analysis of the imprints of Robert G. Simmons (1938–63), Paul W. White (1963–78), Norman Krivosha (1978–87), and William C. Hastings (1987–95).	1
Hewitt's introduction provides a tidy overview of state judicial process and a pithy glimpse of Nebraska legal history. The overview acknowledges the less than exalted role of state courts and provides a modest inventory of Nebraska legal history. Indeed, the tidbits offered were so very fascinating, a more in-depth analysis would no doubt be of interest to many students, scholars, and interested readers.	. . .

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