Jensen field
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 314 U.S. 244 - Parker v. Motor Boat Sales, Inc. · 1941Most cited · 480 citing opinions
Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act scope
the field in which a state may not validly provide for compensation must be taken, for the purposes of the Act, as the same field which the Jensen line of decision excluded from state compensation laws. Without affirming or rejecting the constitutional implications of those cases, we accept them as the measure by which Congress intended to mark the scope of the Act they brought into existence.
How often courts cite the case defining “Jensen field”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Jensen field” — 480 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.