specificity
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 345 U.S. 361 - United States v. Gilbert Associates, Inc. · 1953Most cited · 800 citing opinions
lien
In claims of this type 'specificity' requires that the lien be attached to certain property by reducing it to possession, on the theory that the United States has no claim against property no longer in the possession of the debtor. Until such possession, it remains a general lien.
How often courts cite the case defining “specificity”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “specificity” — 797 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.