"case file" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1896, New York. State School, Rome, Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Rome State Custodial Asylum At Rome, N.Y., Issues 1-12, page 62:",
          "text": "All the correspondence regarding the case can also be filed directly in the case file, thus making it possible to have a complete history of the case at hand whenever the case is being looked up.",
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          "ref": "1957, Gwendoline Butler, Coffin on the Water, page 62:",
          "text": "he had gone into the case, seen the case file, and knew that the coroner and police investigations had identified the drowned child of so many years age as her son.",
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          "ref": "1974, Mary-Jane M. Dowd (editor and compiler), Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the National Mediation Board Record Group 13, page 33:",
          "text": "A typical case file contains the following types of documents: agreement to arbitrate, correspondences regarding the selection of arbitrators, digest of case, transcript of proceedings of the arbitration board, exhibits, award, and related correspondence.",
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