sit-down strike
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 240 - National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. · 1939Most cited · 915 citing opinions
It was not a mere quitting of work and statement of grievances in the exercise of pressure recognized as lawful. It was an illegal seizure of the buildings in order to prevent their use by the employer in a lawful manner and thus by acts of force and violence to compel the employer to submit.
How often courts cite the case defining “sit-down strike”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “sit-down strike” — 915 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.