[The chief justice's personality is also important, legal analysts say.] He does have many of the qualities that potentially can make for a great and influential chief justice, ... He has that great intellect, which no one has denied, and a personality in many respects similar to Rehnquist's - a very charming, affable, low-key, modest personality that was able to make the court a much friendlier and somewhat less contentious place. Carl Tobias