agricultural occupation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 337 U.S. 755 - Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. McComb · 1949Most cited · 535 citing opinions
the question as to whether a particular type of activity is agricultural is not determined by the necessity of the activity to agriculture nor by the physical similarity of the activity to that done by farmers in other situations. The question is whether the activity in the particular case is carried on as part of the agricultural function or is separately organized as an independent productive activity
How often courts cite the case defining “agricultural occupation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “agricultural occupation” — 535 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.