maritime law
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 397 U.S. 179 - United States v. W. M. Webb, Inc. · 1970Most cited · 225 citing opinions
Maritime law, the common law of seafaring men, provides an established network of rules and distinctions that are practically suited to the necessities of the sea, just as land-based decisional law provides a body of rules adapted to the various forms of domestic employment.
How often courts cite the case defining “maritime law”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “maritime law” — 225 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.