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locality rule

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 70 U.S. 20 - The Plymouth · 1865Most cited · 634 citing opinions

admiralty jurisdiction over torts

the wrong and injury complained of must have been committed wholly upon the high seas or navigable waters, or, at least, the substance and consummation of the same must have taken place upon these waters to be within the admiralty jurisdiction

How often courts cite the case defining “locality rule”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “locality rule” — 630 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.