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attachment laws

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 74 U.S. 139 - Green v. Van Buskirk · 1868Most cited · 191 citing opinions

Attachment laws are legal modes of acquiring title to property by operation of law. They exist in every State for the furtherance of justice, with more or less of liberality to creditors

How often courts cite the case defining “attachment laws”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “attachment laws” — 191 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.