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means of knowledge

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 84 U.S. 1 - Cordova v. Hood · 1872Most cited · 108 citing opinions

Wherever inquiry is a duty, the party bound to make it is affected with knowledge of all which he would have discovered had he performed the duty. Means of knowledge with the duty of using them are, in equity, equivalent to knowledge itself.

How often courts cite the case defining “means of knowledge”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “means of knowledge” — 108 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.