Haughton v. Bilson’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. ““The proffered evidence was of precisely the same character, and bore upon precisely the same point, as some that was introduced at the trial by the successful parties, but it was not cumulative thereto, because it was to the contrary effect. It was not corroborative of the evidence of the prevailing parties, but contradictory. Of course a losing party may not demand a new trial because he has discovered a way in which to contradict his own witnesses. (29 Cyc. 899, note 52.) But if he has been defeated by reason of evidence offered by the adverse party which he has been unable to meet, and afterward discovers witnesses who are able to contradict those of his adversary, his new evidence may not be rejected as cumulative, notwithstanding evidence of the same sort, directed to the same question, was given at the trial. (The State v. Tyson, 56 Kan. 686 ; 29 Cyc. 909, note 82; 20 Cyc. 920, note 8; 3 Encyc. of Ev. 924.)” (l. c. 131,132.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Woods-Ringstaff Lumber Co. v. Pond