collision liability
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 62 U.S. 184 - William Cushing v. The Owners of the Ship John Fraser · 1858Most cited · 117 citing opinions
maritime fault
The mere fact that one vessel strikes and damages another, does not of itself make her liable for the injury; the collision must in some degree be occasioned by her fault.
How often courts cite the case defining “collision liability”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “collision liability” — 113 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.