Article:

Olin Guy Wellborn III, The Definition of Hearsay in the Federal Rules of Evidence, 61 TEXAS L. REV. 49 (1982).
 

Abstract:
In this Article, Professor Wellborn describes the widespread implementation of the 1975 Federal Rules of Evidence and warns against a defect in their definition of hearsay. Wellborn argues that the Rules’ attempt to delete from the hearsay concept all out-of-court verbal expressions that are not simple, direct assertions of the matter they are offered to prove is a novelty so unsound that the Committee that adopted the Rules must not have understood the consequences of its action. Wellborn argues that Rule 801 of the Federal Rules of Evidence should be revised to include a different understanding of the concept of hearsay.