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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 328 U.S. 680 - Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · 1946Most cited · 3,461 citing opinions
physical or mental exertion (whether burdensome or not) controlled or required by the employer and pursued necessarily and primarily for the benefit of the employer and his business
How often courts cite the case defining “work”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “work” — 3,440 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.