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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 275 U.S. 426 - Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Aeby · 1928Most cited · 31 citing opinions

things and places furnished by the carriers to be used by their employees in the performance of their work

How often courts cite the case defining “works”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “works” — 133 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.