engaged to wait
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 323 U.S. 134 - Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · 1944Most cited · 9,259 citing opinions
Facts may show that the employee was engaged to wait, or they may show that he waited to be engaged.
How often courts cite the case defining “engaged to wait”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “engaged to wait” — 9,195 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.