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friendly receivership

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 276 U.S. 36 - Harkin v. Brundage · 1928Most cited · 534 citing opinions

there should be no 'friendly' receiverships, because the receiver is an officer of the court and should be as free from 'friendliness' to a party as should the court itself

How often courts cite the case defining “friendly receivership”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “friendly receivership” — 534 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.