champerty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 61 U.S. 467 - Roberts v. Cooper · 1857Most cited · 173 citing opinions
the 'unlawful maintenance of a suit, in consideration of an agreement to have a part of the thing in dispute, or some profit out of it;' and by Chitty as 'a bargain to divide the land (campum partire) or thing in dispute, on condition of his carrying it on at his own expense
How often courts cite the case defining “champerty”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “champerty” — 173 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.