Lampe v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The inconsistent answers above-mentioned, together with the frequently recurring difficulties as to translation, give the impression, upon a mere reading of the record, that lack of understanding between witness and interpreter may well have been responsible for the seeming contradictions. The jury and the trial court were in a much more advantageous situation to determine which answers were credible and which mistaken or misunderstood, and their respective conclusions, as evidenced by the verdict, rendered under adequate instructions, and the refusal to set it aside, are not to be lightly disregarded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1996 Conn. Super. Ct. 4010 - Langewisch v. Chesebrough-Ponds, No. 94 0071745s (May 21, 1996)

2. “The plaintiff is a German, three years in America, and spoke so little English that he testified through an interpreter. The record shows that the witness had frequent difficulty in understanding the questions as translated by both of the two interpreters who were used, and the second, who was serving during the cross-examination and re-direct, later testified that the plaintiff spoke Platt Deutch, a different German dialect from that spoken by the interpreter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1996 Conn. Super. Ct. 4010 - Langewisch v. Chesebrough-Ponds, No. 94 0071745s (May 21, 1996)