investigation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 650 - Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employees v. Association for the Benefit of Non-Contract Employees · 1965Most cited · 405 citing opinions
under Railway Labor Act § 2, Ninth
the Board's duty to investigate is a duty to make such investigation as the nature of the case requires. An investigation is 'essentially informal, not adversary'; it is 'not required to take any particular form.
How often courts cite the case defining “investigation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “investigation” — 402 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.