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vitally affects

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 404 U.S. 157 - Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers of America, Local Union No. 1 v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · 1971Most cited · 1,861 citing opinions

third-party mandatory subjects

the question is not whether the third-party concern is antagonistic to or compatible with the interests of bargaining-unit employees, but whether it vitally affects the 'terms and conditions' of their employment.

How often courts cite the case defining “vitally affects”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “vitally affects” — 1,836 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.