46 U.S.C. § 30301
Section 30301 · Short title
This is the Death on the High Seas Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend (2009)
Most recently applied in Douglass v. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki (August 2022)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
This chapter may be cited as the “Death on the High Seas Act”.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30301 46 App.:761 note. Short Title Act Mar. 30, 1920, ch. 111, 41 Stat. 537, which enacted chapter 21 (§761 et seq.) of the former Appendix to this title, was popularly known as the “Death on the High Seas Act”, prior to being repealed and restated in this chapter by Pub. L. 109–304, §§6(c), 19, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1509, 1710.