Employed
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 39 U.S. 464 - The United States v. Isaac Morris · 1840Most cited · 96 citing opinions
in slave-trade statute
To be 'employed' in any thing, means not only the act of doing it, but also to be engaged to do it; to be under contract or orders to do it. And this is not only the ordinary meaning of the word, but it has frequently been used in that sense in other acts of Congress.
How often courts cite the case defining “Employed”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Employed” — 96 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.