The book "The Brethren" is about the transition from the Warren Court to the Burger / conservative-dominated judiciary we've had since the 1970s. The key opinion from which Woodward got the title of the book is National League of Cities v. Usery, which was a 10th Amendment case decided 5-4. Rehnquist more or less took one of his dissents as the basis of the opinion without acknowledging that it was the minority view and that the opinion broke with a lot of settled law. I think it was Brennan who fired off a vicious dissent pointing all of this out in which he wrote about "my Brethren" and the violence they were doing to precedent. Stevens I think also dissented, and I believe Stevens claimed he thought he could have pulled a majority together were it not for Brennan going ballistic.
