Khan v. Blome

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding the term “vessel” in what is now 18 U.S.C. § 1115 “includes every description of water craft . . . used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water”
• “[T]he purpose of the lawmakers was to prevent the constant recurrence of the serious accidents then prevailing in the navigation of the waters of the United States by vessels using steam.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).