half pilotage
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 73 U.S. 31 - Steamship Company v. Portwardens · 1867Most cited · 71 citing opinions
half pilotage is compensation for services which the pilot has put himself in readiness to perform by labor, risk, and cost, and which he has actually offered to perform.
How often courts cite the case defining “half pilotage”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “half pilotage” — 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.