Gutru v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““An extended experience of the general inaccuracy of observation and of the frailty of human nature as exhibited on the witness-stand convinces the writer that, if judgments may be opened up and set aside on thé sole ground that testimony given at the hearing was false or even perjured, then comparatively few judgments would be conclusive. It is in the highest degree essential to the welfare of the community, and to the respect which should be' given to and the confidence which ought to exist in the judgments of a court, that they should not be set aside unless upon the strongest and most convincing grounds.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kielian v. Kent & Burke Co.