agents
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 356 U.S. 326 - Sinkler v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · 1958Most cited · 565 citing opinions
FELA · construing 45 U.S.C. § 51 · Federal Employers' Liability Act
when a railroad employee's injury is caused in whole or in part by the fault of others performing, under contract, operational activities of his employer, such others are 'agents' of the employer within the meaning of § 1 of FELA
How often courts cite the cases defining “agents”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “agents” — 796 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1958–1966
when an employee's injury is caused in whole or in part by the fault of others performing, under contract, operational activities of his employer, such others are 'agents' of the employer within the meaning of § 1 of FELA