Right to work
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 239 U.S. 33 - William Truax v. Mike Raich · 1915Most cited · 2,037 citing opinions
Fourteenth Amendment
It requires no argument to show that the right to work for a living in the common occupations of the community is of the very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that it was the purpose of the Amendment to secure. If this could be refused solely upon the ground of race or nationality, the prohibition of the denial to any person of the equal protection of the laws would be a barren form of words.
How often courts cite the case defining “Right to work”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Right to work” — 2,027 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.