civil suit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 85 U.S. 272 - Atkins v. The Disintegrating Company · 1873Most cited · 189 citing opinions
a suit within the category of 'all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity,' with which the section deals at the outset.
How often courts cite the case defining “civil suit”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “civil suit” — 182 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.