Evans v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 33 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The primary rule, concerning all evidence, is that personal knowledge of such facts as a court or jury may be'called upon to consider should be required of all witnesses, where it is attainable. It is also an elementary rule that, where the court or jury can make their own deductions, they shall not be made by those testifying. In all cases, therefore, where it is possible to inform the jury fully enough to enable them to dispense with the opinions or deductions of witnesses from things noticed by themselves, or described by others, such opinions or deductions should not usually be received.” Evans v. People, 12 Mich. 27 ; Missouri Pac. Ry. Co. v. Fox, 56 Neb. 746 , 77 N. W. 130 ; Brinks Chicago Express Co. v. Kinnare, 168 Ill. 643 , 48 N. E. 446 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bishop v. Wight · In Re Estate of Astolas

2. ““If a witness is competent to form an opinion which the jury could not, or which an ordinary witness could not, it would be absurd to reject his aid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bockoff v. Curtis