Gencarella v. Fyfe’s Empirical Analysis
171 F.2d 419 · 1948
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably Standard Oil Company of California v. Moore (1958), United States v. Smith (1975)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Palmer v. Hoffman · New York Life Ins. v. Taylor · Hoffman v. Palmer · McWilliams v. Lewis
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It is not specific in requiring the admission of findings, adjudications and conclusions and thus it is nothing more than a codification of the common law exception to the hearsay rule in favor of official records. It does not, therefore, authorize the reception in evidence of every report of an investigation regardless of its hearsay character and of whether it contains conclusions and adjudications. We conclude that the report and findings, together with the affidavits, were not admissible and that their hearsay character was not improved by giving them the status of ‘official records.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orth v. Bauer““ * * * given the proper foundation, the (entries in the report made on the reporting officer’s personal knowledge) might even be put in evidence as an exhibit as a record of the officer’s past recollection -» * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.