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direct relation to navigation and commerce

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 281 U.S. 222 - John Baizley Iron Works v. Span · 1930Most cited · 168 citing opinions

Repairing a completed ship lying in navigable waters has direct and intimate connection with navigation and commerce, as has been often pointed out by this court.

How often courts cite the case defining “direct relation to navigation and commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “direct relation to navigation and commerce” — 168 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.