judgment creditor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 345 U.S. 361 - United States v. Gilbert Associates, Inc. · 1953Most cited · 800 citing opinions
Congress used the words 'judgment creditor' in § 3672 in the usual, conventional sense of a judgment of a court of record, since all states have such courts.
How often courts cite the case defining “judgment creditor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “judgment creditor” — 797 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.