Cahoon v. West’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Mr. Kice, in his work on Evidence (volume 1, p. 585), says: ‘On cross-examination, counsel should be allowed a free range within the subject matter of the direct examination, and wide latitude should be given to a party who has to prove a negative, or to one examining a witness who was a participant in an alleged fraud.’ And again, on page 586, the author says: ‘The cross-examination of a witness cannot be confined strictly to the precise subjects called to his attention upon his direct examination, but should be allowed to extend to any matter, not foreign to the subject-matter of such examination, tending to limit, explain, or modify.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kennedy v. Clinch