reasonable safety
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 376 U.S. 315 - Italia Societa Azioni Navigazione v. Oregon Stevedoring Company · 1964Most cited · 983 citing opinions
stevedore's warranty
The description of the stevedore's obligation as one of performance with reasonable safety is not a reference to the reasonable man test pertaining to negligence, but a delineation of the scope of the stevedore's implied contractual duties. The implied warranty to supply reasonably safe equipment may be satisfied with less than absolutely perfect equipment; however, the issue of breach of the undertaking does not turn on whether the contractor knew or should have known that his equipment was safe, but on whether the equipment was in fact safe and fit for its intended use.
How often courts cite the case defining “reasonable safety”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reasonable safety” — 980 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.