Contest
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 244 U.S. 174 - Franklin Lane v. Svan Hoglund · 1917Most cited · 173 citing opinions
public land
As applied to public land affairs the term 'contest' has been long employed to designate a proceeding by an adverse or intending claimant, conducted in his own interest, against the entry of another.
How often courts cite the case defining “Contest”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Contest” — 173 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.