It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image