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virtute officii

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 80 U.S. 17 - Boyden v. United States · 1871Most cited · 48 citing opinions

the duty of a receiver, virtute officii, is to bring to the discharge of his trust that prudence, caution, and attention which careful men usually bring to the conduct of their own affairs

How often courts cite the case defining “virtute officii”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “virtute officii” — 48 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.