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safe custody

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 65 U.S. 247 - The Powhatan Steamboat Company v. The Appomattox Railroad Company · 1860Most cited · 29 citing opinions

Safe custody is as mach the duty of the carrier as due transport and right delivery

How often courts cite the case defining “safe custody”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “safe custody” — 29 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.