in transit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 269 U.S. 158 - Davis v. John L. Roper Lumber Co. · 1925Most cited · 58 citing opinions
In the ordinary and usual meaning of the word, 'transit' ends before delivery at destination.
How often courts cite the case defining “in transit”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “in transit” — 55 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.