abandoned property
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 341 U.S. 428 - Standard Oil Co. v. New Jersey · 1951Most cited · 368 citing opinions
stock certificates and undelivered dividends thereon may also be abandoned property subject to the disposition of the domiciliary state of the corporation when the whereabouts of the owners are unknown for such lengths of time, and under such circumstances, as permit the declaration of abandonment.
How often courts cite the case defining “abandoned property”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “abandoned property” — 368 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.