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earned income

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 468 U.S. 1305 - Heckler v. Turner · 1984Most cited · 20 citing opinions

the gross amount of earnings, prior to the taking of payroll or other deductions."

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How often courts cite the case defining “earned income”

1980199020002010202010

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “earned income” — 20 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.