civil service
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 80 U.S. 568 - Twenty Per Cent. Cases · 1871Most cited · 5 citing opinions
Many persons not employed as clerks or messengers of a department, are in the public service by virtue of an employment by the head of the department or by the head of some bureau of the department authorized by law to make such contracts, and such persons are as much in the civil service within the meaning of the joint resolution as the clerks and messengers employed in the rooms of the department building.
How often courts cite the case defining “civil service”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “civil service” — 5 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.