earning power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 292 U.S. 234 - Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · 1934Most cited · 4,519 citing opinions
The earning power of an individual is the power to create property; but it is not translated into property within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Act until it has brought earnings into existence.
How often courts cite the case defining “earning power”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “earning power” — 4,455 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.