Marr v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The exclusionary force of the hearsay rule is not applicable when the extrajudicial statement of a third person is not offered to prove the truth of the utterance, but only to show that the statement was made. Where the mere fact that the statement was made is independently relevant, regardless of its truth or falsity such evidence is admissible.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hansen v. Atlantic Richfield Co.

2. “the former decision must be deemed to be controlling, so far as the questions are the same. " Thus, although a former ruling by this court in a case is binding as the "law of the case”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Huszar v. CERTIFIED REALTY COMPANY