The ruling in Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun established the precedent that Asian Americans had the right to testify in court.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by multiple independent sources including encyclopedic references (Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, UNM), journalistic coverage (NBC News, History.com, Hyperallergic, AsAmNews, KRQE), and traced to a scholarly historical analysis by John R. Wunder. Consistent characterization across all sources with no dissenting interpretation found. [tier=silver indep_score=0.875 clusters=6 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on Historical scholarship by John R. Wunder, which most popular accounts of the case cite or draw from (upstreams: John R. Wunder, 'Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun: A Turning Point in Chinese Legal Relationships in the Trans-Mississippi West,' New Mexico Historical Review 65 (1990)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=interpretive eligibility=medium]
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- Monument Marks Little-Remembered Case That Set Precedent for Asian Americans to Testify in Court (seed:law_and_crime)
- https://www.history.com/articles/chinese-exclusion-act-yee-shun-legal-rights (corroboration)
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-monument-highlights-landmark-case-allowed-chinese-testify-u-s-n1117221 (corroboration)
- https://asamnews.com/2018/04/01/new-mexico-to-erect-a-sculpture-commemorating-historic-case-of-yee-shun/ (corroboration)
- http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.asam.021 (corroboration)
- https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/yee-shun.html (corroboration)
- https://hyperallergic.com/437277/public-sculpture-honors-court-case-asian-americans/ (corroboration)