sweating system
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 300 U.S. 379 - West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · 1937Most cited · 1,605 citing opinions
The exploiting of workers at wages so low as to be insufficient to meet the bare cost of living, thus making their very helplessness the occasion of a most injurious competition.
How often courts cite the case defining “sweating system”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sweating system” — 1,593 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.