In his book, Logic for Lawyers, Judge Ruggero Aldisert emphasizes the process of analogy as one of the most importance studies that an appellate lawyer can learn.  He writes: Analogies can be considered the most important aspect of the study and practice of law.  It is the method by which putative precedents are subjected to the acid test of searching analysis.  It is the method to determine whether factual differences contained in the case at bar and those of the case compared are material or irrelevant.  This requires counsel to be intellectually responsible at all time, to consider the consequences of projected steps when they reasonably follow from any position taken or about to be taken.  Intellectual responsibility means integrity; it means recognizing the…