employed in interstate commerce
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 239 U.S. 556 - Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · 1916Most cited · 109 citing opinions
FELA test · construing 45 U.S.C. § 51 · Federal Employers' Liability Act
We think it speaks of interstate commerce, not in a technical legal sense, but in a practical one better suited to the occasion, and that the true test of employment in such commerce in the sense intended is, Was the employee, at the time of the injury, engaged in interstate transportation, or in work so closely related to it as to be practically a part of it?
How often courts cite the case defining “employed in interstate commerce”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “employed in interstate commerce” — 390 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.