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second appeal

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 79 U.S. 121 - Noonan v. Bradley · 1870Most cited · 29 citing opinions

Second appeals or writs of error are allowed, but the rule is universal that they bring up only the proceedings subsequent to the mandate, and do not authorize an inquiry into the merits of the original judgment or decree.

How often courts cite the case defining “second appeal”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “second appeal” — 29 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.