direct attack
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 479 - Johnson v. Manhattan Railway Co. · 1933Most cited · 906 citing opinions
In thus seeking a correction of errors claimed to have been committed in continuing the receiverships they would have been entitled to appeal. In this they were engaged in a direct attack
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “direct attack” — 893 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.