active service
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 366 U.S. 393 - Bell v. United States · 1961Most cited · 518 citing opinions
active service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, including active Federal service performed by personnel of the retired and reserve components of these forces, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Public Health Service, and active Federal service performed by the civilian officers and employees defined in paragraph (a)(3) above
How often courts cite the case defining “active service”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “active service” — 517 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.