pledge
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 206 U.S. 415 - Security Warehousing Co. v. Hand · 1907Most cited · 267 citing opinions
requires possession
The general law of pledge requires possession, and it cannot exist without it.
How often courts cite the case defining “pledge”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pledge” — 267 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.