common fund doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 283 U.S. 738 - United States v. Equitable Trust Co. · 1931Most cited · 217 citing opinions
a trust fund which has been recovered or preserved through their intervention may be charged with the costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred in that behalf; and this rule is deemed specially applicable where the fund belongs to an infant or incompetent who is represented in the litigation by a next friend
How often courts cite the case defining “common fund doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “common fund doctrine” — 217 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.