non-recourse clause
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 320 U.S. 508 - Illinois Steel Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · 1944Most cited · 203 citing opinions
The obvious purpose and effect of the non-recourse clause is to relieve the shipper from liability for freight charges, upon delivery to the consignee.
How often courts cite the case defining “non-recourse clause”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “non-recourse clause” — 203 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.