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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 65 U.S. 1 - Franklin Moore George Foot and George Bagley v. The American Transportation Company · 1860Most cited · 83 citing opinions
in the connection found, "employed", and doubtless, in the mind of Congress, was intended to refer to vessels solely employed in rivers or inland navigation.
How often courts cite the case defining “used”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “used” — 82 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.