Taylor v. Beverage’s Empirical Analysis

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Appellees make the point that the oral testimony in behalf of appellant was given * * * more than six years after the events testified to occurred, and invoke the rule that such testimony should be weighed with extreme caution. This is a salutary rule, which has often been applied by the courts, but the rule does not require that oral testimony shall be disregarded solely because given many years after the taking place of the event to which the testimony relates.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carusi v. Looker