admiralty and maritime jurisdiction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 289 U.S. 137 - United States v. Flores · 1933Most cited · 270 citing opinions
consistently interpreted as adopting for the United States the system of admiralty and maritime law, as it had been developed in the admiralty courts of England and the Colonies, and, by implication, conferring on Congress the power, subject to well recognized limitations not here material, to alter, qualify, or supplement it as experience or changing conditions may require
How often courts cite the case defining “admiralty and maritime jurisdiction”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “admiralty and maritime jurisdiction” — 270 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.