Schmidt v. Pfau’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 20 state decisions

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

1. ““ The answer of appellant to this is to the effect that, if his testimony is looked to for the purpose of proving any particular fact, it must be accepted as a whole, and for all purposes. This view of the law is clearly unsound, and finds no support from English or American authority. It is a familiar principle of the law of evidence as it obtains in this country and in England that the statements' of a party, made against his own interest, may be accepted and acted upon by the jury as true, while others made in his favor, though at the same time and as part of the same conversation, may be rejected as unworthy of belief. In such case all that the witness has said relating to the particular matter in question goes to the jury for their consideration, but, when considered, they may believe such párts of the statement as seem reasonable and probable, and reject the balance. 2 Best, Ev. § 520.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Detroit Electric Light & Power Co. v. Applebaum