dunnage
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 672 - Insurance Company v. Thwing · 1871Most cited · 4 citing opinions
Dunnage is placed under the cargo to keep it from being wetted by water getting into the hold, or between the different parcels to keep them from bruising and injuring each other.
How often courts cite the case defining “dunnage”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “dunnage” — 4 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.