prejudgment garnishment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 395 U.S. 337 - Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · 1969Most cited · 3,988 citing opinions
A prejudgment garnishment of the Wisconsin type is a taking which may impose tremendous hardship on wage earners with families to support.
How often courts cite the case defining “prejudgment garnishment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prejudgment garnishment” — 3,976 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.