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extra duty

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 239 U.S. 530 - United States v. Ross · 1916Most cited · 9 citing opinions

The term is obviously a relative one; and it cannot be determined that the enlisted man was performing extra duty without a complete understanding of the scope of the duties which he might properly be expected to perform in accordance with his enlistment without receiving extra pay. What might be extra duty in the case of men of the line might not be extra duty in the case of men in the staff departments.

How often courts cite the case defining “extra duty”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “extra duty” — 9 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.