State courts remained free on undecided issues to follow or reject the Restatements

Evidence

But were not the figures in the third column of the table more significant by far than those in the second? By what means could the Institute persuade the various state courts, as the undecided issues in that column were presented, to bring their holdings into line with rather than in opposition to the Institute formulations? Was black-letter text best fitted for this job, or would a treatise-type presentation furnish a better means of persuasion? — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 4441

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Restatements descended from the codification movement yet were never binding law — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2358

Broader Connections

• The Restatements descended from the codification movement yet were never binding law #expands (0.95) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2358