Baggage
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 79 U.S. 262 - Hannibal Railroad v. Swift · 1870Most cited · 75 citing opinions
a contract to carry the person only implies an undertaking to transport such a limited quantity of articles as are ordinarily taken by travellers for their personal use and convenience; such quantity depending of course upon the station of the party, the object and length of the journey, and many other considerations.
How often courts cite the case defining “Baggage”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Baggage” — 75 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.