declarations against interest
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 25 U.S. 515 - Richard Drummond Surviving Partner of Charles Drummond v. Executors of George Prestman · 1827Most cited · 53 citing opinions
deceased
if a person have peculiar means of knowing a fact, and make a declaration of that fact which is against his interest, it is clearly evidence after his death, if he could have been examined to it in his lifetime.
How often courts cite the case defining “declarations against interest”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “declarations against interest” — 53 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.