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motion to quash

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 74 U.S. 580 - United States v. Rosenburgh · 1868Most cited · 68 citing opinions

A motion to quash is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and if refused, is not a proper subject of exception.

How often courts cite the case defining “motion to quash”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “motion to quash” — 68 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.