Baxter v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The deposition of William Pyncheon was offered in evidence, which was objected to by the defendant, for the reason that the justice does not certify how the oath was administered to the witness. The authority to take testimony in this manner, being in derogation of the rules of the common law, has always been construed strictly; and therefore it is necessary to establish that all the requisites of the law have been complied with before such testimony is admissible. Before a deposition should be allowed to be read in evidence, every requisite of the statute must have been substantially and fully complied with. This deposition was taken at the instance of the plaintiff, for the reason that the witness resided more than thirty miles from the place of trial, in pursuance of a written agreement between the parties, and in their presence. In the commencement and body of the deposition, it is stated that the witness ‘beingduly sworn doth depose and say as follows The certificate of the justice sets forth that the witness ‘was first sworn in the usual manner of taking depositions.’ The statute requires that the deponent shall be sworn to testify the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. There was error in overruling the objection to the reading of this deposition.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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