employees
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 310 U.S. 534 - United States v. American Trucking Associations · 1940Most cited · 4,871 citing opinions
the meaning of employees in Section 204(a)(1) and (2) is limited to those employees whose activities affect the safety of operation
How often courts cite the cases defining “employees”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “employees” — 5,773 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1940–1947
control is characteristically associated with the employer-employee relationship but in the application of social legislation employees are those who as a matter of economic reality are dependent upon the business to which they render service.