Cross-examination scope
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 39 U.S. 448 - The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company v. James Stimpson · 1840Most cited · 218 citing opinions
a party has no right to cross-examine any witness except as to facts and circumstances connected with the matters stated in his direct examination. If he wishes to examine him to other matters, he must do so by making the witness his own, and calling him, as such, in the subsequent progress of the cause.
How often courts cite the case defining “Cross-examination scope”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Cross-examination scope” — 216 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.