Leonard v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 3 district · 23 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The right of an opposing party to examine any paper used to refresh the recollection of any witness on the stand at the trial is beyond doubt. The cases on the point are cited in the recent decision of Bendett v. Bendett, ante, 59, 62. But to extend this right to every paper seen by a witness in the preparation of the case before trial is a different matter. Such an extension of the principle might turn every trial into a fishing expedition and place a powerful weapon in the hands of an unscrupulous attorney.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alukonis v. Lewis · 37 Mass. App. Dec. 7 - Lazarus v. Conte

2. “It has long been established practice in this Commonwealth that where a party at a trial calls for a document from his opponent and in response to the call receives it and examines it, the document may be put in evidence by the opponent, even though it would have been incompetent if it had not been called for and examined. This rule was fully established in Clark v. Fletcher, 1 Allen, 53 , 57. It has been constantly and frequently applied in the trial courts for at least eighty-three years and has continued to receive recognition in this court,” See: 6 Legalite, 161 and 169”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alukonis v. Lewis