merchant vessel
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 266 U.S. 108 - James Shewan & Sons, Inc. v. United States · 1924Most cited · 86 citing opinions
The mere laying up of a vessel engaged in the latter service would not change its character, unless the government did something affirmative to make it a public vessel. . . . The words of the proviso may reasonably and more liberally be interpreted as a limitation that the vessel is a merchant vessel and shall not have lost its character as such.
How often courts cite the case defining “merchant vessel”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “merchant vessel” — 83 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.