specific protest
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 270 U.S. 163 - Girard Trust Co. v. United States · 1926Most cited · 163 citing opinions
tax
A protest is for the purpose of inviting attention of the taxing officers to the illegality of the collection, so that they may take remedial measures at once.
How often courts cite the case defining “specific protest”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “specific protest” — 163 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.