adverse claim
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 271 U.S. 191 - Harrison v. Chamberlin · 1926Most cited · 846 citing opinions
a contested matter of right, involving some fair doubt and reasonable room for controversy, in matters either of fact or law; an actual claim may be adverse and substantial even though in fact fraudulent and voidable
How often courts cite the case defining “adverse claim”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “adverse claim” — 843 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.