damage in transit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 269 U.S. 158 - Davis v. John L. Roper Lumber Co. · 1925Most cited · 58 citing opinions
As construed by this court, the second proviso embraces three classes: (1) Loss, damage, or injury due to delay; (2) damage while being loaded or unloaded; (3) damage in transit. Loading precedes, and unloading follows, transit.
How often courts cite the case defining “damage in transit”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “damage in transit” — 55 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.