A delightful payoff for research prompted by random curiosity about language.

Sasha Volokh is bemused by the phrase "still and all" in Supreme Court cases.

It sounds slang-y because "and all" occurs in casual speech (like "and stuff"), but it's actually old-timey (like "It cannot be gainsaid").

Sasha consults the OED and finds the the phrase goes back to 1829. And he searches the entire Supreme Court archive to find that there is � after 2 recent iterations of the phrase "still and all" � only one other appearance of those 3 words in sequence, a 1961 case about the search of a distillery:

Indeed, the officers here could have abated the nuisance without judicial help by destroying the still and all of its paraphernalia....