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Licensed social worker

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 518 U.S. 1 - Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · 1996Most cited · 1,447 citing opinions

a person who holds a license authorizing the practice of social work, which includes social services to individuals, groups or communities in any one or more of the fields of social casework, social group work, community organization for social welfare, social work research, social welfare administration or social work education."

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How often courts cite the case defining “Licensed social worker”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Licensed social worker” — 1,444 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.