opposition
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 40 U.S. 167 - Barnett Eliza Levy v. Edmund David Fitzpatrick · 1841Most cited · 24 citing opinions
Louisiana practice
upon that notice, the debtors had a right to come into court and file their petition, which is technically called an opposition, and set up, as matter of defence, everything that could be assigned for error here, and pray for an injunction to stay the executory process, till the matter of the petition could be heard and determined.
How often courts cite the case defining “opposition”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “opposition” — 24 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.