Fennerstein's Champagne’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions

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1. ““In reaching this conclusion,” the learned justice continues, “wo do not go beyond the verge of the authorities to which we have referred. In some of those cases the person assorted to be necessary, as a witness was dead. But that can make no difference in the result. 'The rule rests upon the consideration that 1he entry, other writing, or parol declaration of the author was within his ordinary business. In most cases he must make the entry contemporaneously with the occurrence to which it relates. In ail he has full knowledge, no motive to falsehood, and there is the strongest improbability of untruth. Safer sanctions rarely surround the testimony of a witness examined under oath. The rule is as firmly fixed as the more general rale to which it is an exception. Modern legislation has largely and wisely liberalized the law of evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Greene