plaintiff
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 204 U.S. 570 - Mason City & Fort Dodge Railroad v. Boynton · 1907Most cited · 194 citing opinions
in condemnation removal
Looked at as a whole, the Iowa statutes provide a process by which railroads and others may acquire land for their purposes which the owner refuses to sell. ... The intent of the railroad to get the land is the mainspring of the proceedings from beginning to end, and the persistence of that intent is the condition of their effect. ... Therefore, in a broad sense, the railroad is the plaintiff, as the institution and continuance of the proceedings depend upon its will.
How often courts cite the case defining “plaintiff”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “plaintiff” — 189 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.