Young v. Corrigan’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““A detective was employed by the plaintiff, as the result of an item of testimony offered in defense, to go to the town where the witness in question formerly resided and there make inquiry touching the reputation for truth and veracity of the witness, with a view of qualifying such detective to be a witness on rebuttal in impeachment. This the court refused to permit. As to this, the rule laid down in Wigmore on Evidence, § 692, undoubtedly states the law: “ ‘The admissible reputation is that which is built up in the neighborhood of a man’s domicile or in the circle where his livelihood is followed, and it is of slow formation. It is the sum of all that is said or not said for or against him. Consequently its tenor, can be adequately learned only by a residence in the place, not by a mere visit of inquiry, or by a casual sojourn, or by a conversation with a resident who reports the reputation.’ “The court’s refusal to permit this testimony was undoubtedly right. It is not difficult to see the opportunity for gross abuse, if it were permissible to attack reputation through the hiring of investigators.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cross