water carrier
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 321 U.S. 634 - Cornell Steamboat Co. v. United States · 1944Most cited · 80 citing opinions
any person who engages in the 'transportation by water * * * of * * * property * * * for compensation
How often courts cite the case defining “water carrier”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “water carrier” — 80 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.