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Litigious right

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Definitions from Case Law

From 59 U.S. 507 - Charles McMicken v. Franklin Perin · 1855Most cited · 77 citing opinions

Louisiana code

art. 2623, 'a right is said to be litigious whenever there exists a suit and contestation about the same'; art. 3522, No. 22, 'litigious rights are those which cannot be exercised without undergoing a lawsuit

How often courts cite the cases defining “Litigious right”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Litigious right” — 132 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1850–1855

  1. 1850·52 U.S. 232 - Stockton v. Ford[p41]· cited 56×
    ORIGINAL

    According to the Civil Code of Louisiana, article 2623, 'A right is said to be litigious whenever there exists a suit and contestation on the same.