service
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 327 U.S. 358 - Social Security Board v. Nierotko · 1946Most cited · 955 citing opinions
Service' as used by Congress in this definitive phrase means not only work actually done but the entire employer-employee relationship for which compensation is paid to the employee by the employer.
How often courts cite the case defining “service”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “service” — 949 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.