vocation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 346 U.S. 389 - Dickinson v. United States · 1953Most cited · 1,738 citing opinions
ministerial exemption
Preaching and teaching the principles of one's sect, if performed part-time or half-time, occasionally or irregularly, are insufficient to bring a registrant under § 6(g). These activities must be regularly performed. They must, as the statute reads, comprise the registrant's 'vocation.
How often courts cite the case defining “vocation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “vocation” — 1,735 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.