Hoe v. Kahler’s Empirical Analysis
25 F. 271 · 1885
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
August 1919
most recently cited
2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Mahn v. Harwood · Miller v. Brass Co. · Thompson v. Boisselier · Pennsylvania Co v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Co
Most-quoted passages
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““The affirmative probative force of a paper in a file wrapper, to show the existence of its contents, is one thing, but its negative probative force, to show that a paper or a fact not shown by anything in its contents did not exist, is quite a different thing. The fact that papers known to have existed, and which properly belonged in a file wrapper, are missing therefrom, Is a fact of such frequent occurrence in patent suits as to have become a matter of judicial cognizance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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