Justice Don Willett, of the Texas Supreme Court, cited an unusual legal authority in his Ruling in Robinson vs. Crown Cork Seal Company… Star Trek. The case deals with the limits of police power and Justice Willett's ruling relied on the idea that police power is based on the idea that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,". The ruling cited this as a “Vulcan” concept, and then went on to quote from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

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