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twilight zone

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 317 U.S. 249 - Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries · 1942Most cited · 852 citing opinions

There is, in the light of the cases referred to, clearly a twilight zone in which the employees must have their rights determined case by case, and in which particular facts and circumstances are vital elements.

How often courts cite the case defining “twilight zone”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “twilight zone” — 849 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.