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proof, allowance, and distribution

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 329 U.S. 565 - Gardner v. State of New Jersey · 1947Most cited · 1,014 citing opinions

The whole process of proof, allowance, and distribution is, shortly speaking, an adjudication of interests claimed in a res.

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “proof, allowance, and distribution” — 1,001 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.