Whilst the sentence is anything but hearsay, it should be removed. Firstly it is essentially irrelevant. A judgment is a judgment. Whether the author of the judgment anticipated how widely it would be used is not a matter of any legal importance whatsoever. In fact it is highly doubtful that any judge would be able to predict with a high degree of accuracy what legal changes might develop from their judgments. | Whilst the sentence is anything but hearsay, it should be removed. Firstly it is essentially irrelevant. A judgment is a judgment. Whether the author of the judgment anticipated how widely it would be used is not a matter of any legal importance whatsoever. In fact it is highly doubtful that any judge would be able to predict with a high degree of accuracy what legal changes might develop from their judgments. |