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borrowed servant

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 287 U.S. 291 - Sun Oil Co. v. Dalzell Towing Co. · 1932Most cited · 335 citing opinions

when one puts his employee at the disposal and under the direction of another for the performance of service for the latter, such employee while so engaged acts directly for and is to be deemed the employee of the latter and not of the former

How often courts cite the case defining “borrowed servant”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “borrowed servant” — 335 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.