private carriage
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 368 U.S. 370 - United States v. Drum · 1962Most cited · 258 citing opinions
A purported private carrier who hires the instrumentalities of transportation from another must — if he is not to utilize a licensed carrier — assume in significant measure the characteristic burdens of the transportation business; the determination turns on the substance of the arrangement, not merely on which party exercises operational control, and financial risks constitute a significant burden whose transfer to the equipment owner weighs against private-carrier status.
How often courts cite the case defining “private carriage”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “private carriage” — 258 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.