<P> This passage was used in Britain by Lord Atkin in his dissenting judgement in the seminal case Liversidge v. Anderson (1942), where he protested about the distortion of a statute by the majority of the House of Lords . It also became a popular citation in United States legal opinions, appearing in 250 judicial decisions in the Westlaw database as of 19 April 2008, including two Supreme Court cases (TVA v. Hill and Zschernig v. Miller). </P> <P> It has been suggested by A.J. Larner that Carroll's Humpty Dumpty had prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise . </P> <P> "The face is what one goes by, generally," Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone . "That's just what I complain of," said Humpty Dumpty . "Your face is the same as everybody has--the two eyes, --" (marking their places in the air with his thumb) "nose in the middle, mouth under . It's always the same . Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance--or the mouth at the top--that would be some help ." </P> <P> Humpty Dumpty has become a highly popular nursery rhyme character . American actor George L. Fox (1825--77) helped to popularise the character in nineteenth - century stage productions of pantomime versions, music, and rhyme . The character is also a common literary allusion, particularly to refer to a person in an insecure position, something that would be difficult to reconstruct once broken, or a short and fat person . Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works in addition to his appearance as a character in Through the Looking - Glass, including L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose (1901), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's "death" and her father's soldiers' efforts to save him . In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir - style hardboiled crime story, involving other characters from popular nursery rhymes . Robert Rankin used Humpty Dumpty as one victim of a serial fairy - tale character murderer in The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (2002). Jasper Fforde included Humpty Dumpty in his novels The Well of Lost Plots (2003) and The Big Over Easy (2005), which use him respectively as a ringleader of dissatisfied nursery rhyme characters threatening to strike and as the victim of a murder . Humpty Dumpty appears as a lead villain in the DreamWorks animation Puss in Boots (2011). </P>

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