pilots
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 69 U.S. 450 - Steamship Company v. Joliffe · 1864Most cited · 260 citing opinions
The term pilots is equally applicable to two classes of persons,— to those whose employment is to guide vessels in and out of ports, and to those who are intrusted with the management of the helm and the direction of the vessel on her voyage.
How often courts cite the case defining “pilots”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “pilots” — 260 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.