maintain a suit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 373 - George Moore Ice Cream Co. v. Rose · 1933Most cited · 671 citing opinions
To maintain a suit is to uphold, continue on foot and keep from collapse a suit already begun.
How often courts cite the cases defining “maintain a suit”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “maintain a suit” — 908 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1927–1933
- ORIGINAL
To maintain a suit is to uphold, continue on foot and keep from collapse a suit already begun.