Initial carrier liability
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 223 U.S. 481 - Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Wallace · 1912Most cited · 392 citing opinions
Carmack Amendment
Under the Carmack amendment, as already construed in the Riverside Mills Case, wherever the carrier voluntarily accepts goods for shipment to a point on another line, in another state, it is conclusively treated as having made a through contract. It thereby elected to treat the connecting carriers as its agents, for all purposes of transportation and delivery.
How often courts cite the case defining “Initial carrier liability”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Initial carrier liability” — 389 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.