status quo
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 396 U.S. 142 - Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union · 1969Most cited · 1,063 citing opinions
Railway Labor Act
The obligation of both parties during a period in which any of these status quo provisions is properly invoked is to preserve and maintain unchanged those actual, objective working conditions and practices, broadly conceived, which were in effect prior to the time the pending dispute arose and which are involved in or related to that dispute.
How often courts cite the cases defining “status quo”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “status quo” — 1,396 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1969–1989
- 1989·491 U.S. 490 - Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad v. Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n[p44]· cited 392×
conditions 'objectively' in existence when the union's notice was served" stretched the language of the statute "to its outer limits," "ante," at 506.