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ward of the admiralty

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 293 U.S. 155 - Warner v. Goltra · 1934Most cited · 506 citing opinions

He is a 'ward of the admiralty,' often ignorant and helpless, and so in need of protection against himself as well as others.

How often courts cite the case defining “ward of the admiralty”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “ward of the admiralty” — 500 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.