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”
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.