Rawles v. Bazel’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1986
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 3 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Testimony concerning pedigree is well recognized as an exception to the hearsay rule, provided that no other better evidence can be obtained, and that the declarant or source of the witness’ information was a member of the family or related to the family, whose history the fact concerns, and was deceased or out of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cassady v. Martin
How this case has been treated — in progress
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