Pearce v. E.F. Hutton Group, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2006
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 498 F. Supp. 353 - United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 556 F. Supp. 1157 - Hobson v. Wilson · Bright v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · Baker v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fed.R.Evid. 803(8)(C). The advisory committee's note explains: 47 Factors which may be of assistance in passing upon the admissibility of evaluative reports include: (1) the timeliness of the investigation; (2) the special skill or experience of the official; (3) whether a hearing was held and the level at which conducted; (4) possible motivation problems.... Others no doubt could be added. 48 Fed.R.Evid. 803(8)(C) advisory committee's note (internal citations omitted). Case law has added to the list of trustworthiness considerations. 4 49 Most notably, a report may be untrustworthy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]iven the obviously political nature of Congress, it is questionable whether any report by a committee or subcommittee of that body could be admitted under rule 803(8)(C) against a private party. There would appear to be too great a danger that political considerations might affect the findings of such a report”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to isolate or distinguish any factual findings from its subjective criticisms and conclusions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.