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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”

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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.