Colby v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
622 F.2d 644 · 1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 203 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Angell v. Flemming · Miller v. Ribicoff · 360 F. Supp. 199 - Sayer v. Richardson · 206 F. Supp. 874 - Joyner v. Ribicoff
Most-quoted passages
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“Amounts that your employer pays you specifically — either as advances or reimbursements — for traveling or for other ordinary and necessary expenses incurred, or reasonably expected to be incurred, in your employer's business are not wages. The employer must identify these travel and other expenses either by making a separate payment or by specifically stating the separate amounts if both wages and expense allowances are combined in a single payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the Regulation has a rational basis and is authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Bowen
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.