Day v. Backus’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1900
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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““Without reference to the much-mooted question whether there are any degrees of secondary evidence, or whether mere parol evidence of the contents of Day’s letter could be given so long after it was written, when it was shown that three copies were taken by disinterested persons immediately after it was received (which, for myself, I think was the best evidence [Eslow v. Mitchell, 26 Mich. 500 ] ), I think,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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