Cotton v. Cotton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2011
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“This type of hearing is different and is governed by rules of evidence different from those followed in jury trials. The Judge’s experience and learning enabled him to weigh and to evaluate the testimony and to disregard that which under strict rules would be inadmissible in a jury trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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