duty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 339 U.S. 96 - Affolder v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad · 1950Most cited · 496 citing opinions
under the Federal Safety Appliance Act (now 49 U.S.C. § 20301 et seq.) · construing 49 U.S.C. § 20301 · Safety Appliance Act
the duty under the Acts is not based on the negligence of the carrier but is an absolute one requiring performance 'on the occasion in question
How often courts cite the cases defining “duty”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “duty” — 662 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1796–1950
- ORIGINAL
The term duty, is the most comprehensive next to the generical term tax; and practically in Great Britain, (whence we take our general ideas of taxes, duties, imposts, excises, customs, etc.) embraces taxes on stamps, tolls for passage, etc. etc. and is not confined to taxes on importation only.
as a tax