auctioneer
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 22 U.S. 616 - The Monte Allegre · 1824Most cited · 44 citing opinions
special agent
Auctioneers are special agents, and have only authority to sell, and not to warrant, unless specially instructed so to do.
How often courts cite the case defining “auctioneer”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “auctioneer” — 44 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.