Knight v. Gavit’s Empirical Analysis
1846
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cited by 1 later decisions
September 2005
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1 federal appellate ·
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“The next question regards the utility of the plaintiff's alleged improvement. Upon this, also, you will pass as the evidence may direct you.”
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