In 1904 he published his most famous work, Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (usually known as Wigmore on Evidence or just Wigmore), an encyclopedic survey of the development of the law of evidence. Although Wigmore's influence on the modern American law of evidence remains substantial, the primary modern doctrinal basis for the law of evidence in federal trials is the Federal Rules of Evidence, on which many states have modeled their evidence rules.
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