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overtime

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 320 U.S. 561 - United States v. Myers · 1944Most cited · 65 citing opinions

overtime, as applied to week days, refers to hours longer than the daily limit of 8 A.M. to 5 P.M., nine hours with one hour for food and rest

How often courts cite the case defining “overtime”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “overtime” — 65 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.