fault
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 74 U.S. 196 - The Grace Girdler · 1868Most cited · 70 citing opinions
burden of proof in collision
Where fault is shown on the part of the damaging vessel, it is incumbent on her to show that such fault had in no degree the relation of cause and effect to the accident
How often courts cite the case defining “fault”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fault” — 70 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.