watches
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 269 U.S. 364 - O'Hara v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · 1926Most cited · 161 citing opinions
In the understanding of the sailor, a division into 'watches,' as applied to the personnel of the ship, connotes a division as nearly equal as possible
How often courts cite the case defining “watches”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “watches” — 161 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.