Greenbaum v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.2d 574 · 1938
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Cornell Steamboat Company v. John J. Coughlin and J. C. Davis, Director General of Railroads, Etc · Greenbaum v. United States · Wilkes v. United States · Osborne v. United States · Hass v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The books were not public records; they stood on the same footing with the books of the trader or merchant. * * * Their admissibility must, therefore, be determined by the rule which governs the admissibility of entries made by private parties in the ordinary course of their business. “And that rule, with some exceptions not including the present case, requires, for the admissibility of the entries, not merely that they shall be contemporaneous with the facts to which they relate, but shall be made by parties having personal knowledge of the facts, and be corroborated by their testimony, if living and accessible, or by proof of their handwriting, if dead, or insane, or beyond the reach of the process or commission of the court. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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