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disability

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 342 U.S. 197 - Pillsbury v. United Engineering Co. · 1952Most cited · 265 citing opinions

Disability' is related to the right to compensation; Congress knew the difference between 'disability' and 'injury' and used the words advisedly — 'disability' means incapacity because of injury to earn the wages which the employee was receiving at the time of injury in the same or any other employment.

How often courts cite the case defining “disability”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “disability” — 265 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.