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sequestration

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 3 U.S. 1 - Georgia v. Brailsford · 1794Most cited · 86 citing opinions

no sequestration devests the property in the thing sequestered; and, consequently, Brailsford, at the peace, and indeed, throughout the war, was the real owner of the debt.

How often courts cite the case defining “sequestration”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sequestration” — 85 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.