closed shop
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 338 U.S. 355 - Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · 1949Most cited · 181 citing opinions
One of the oldest techniques in the art of collective bargaining is the closed shop. It protects the integrity of the union and provides stability to labor relations.
How often courts cite the case defining “closed shop”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “closed shop” — 181 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.