keep her course
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 62 U.S. 372 - New York & Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Co. v. Rumball · 1858Most cited · 60 citing opinions
sailing vessel rule
Sailing vessels approaching a steamer are required to keep their course on account of the correlative duty which is devolved upon the steamer to keep out of the way, in order that the steamer may know the position of the object to be avoided, and may not be led into error in her endeavor to comply with the requirement.
How often courts cite the case defining “keep her course”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “keep her course” — 59 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.