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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 83 U.S. 318 - Railroad Company v. Manufacturing Company · 1872Most cited · 162 citing opinions

as accessory to transportation

If there be a necessity for storage it will be considered a mere accessory to the transportation, and not as changing the nature of the bailment.

How often courts cite the case defining “storage”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “storage” — 160 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.