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Definitions from Case Law

From 300 U.S. 515 - Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · 1937Most cited · 2,662 citing opinions

The evident purpose of this section, as its history and context show, was not to preclude mandatory injunctions, but to forbid blanket injunctions against labor unions, which are usually prohibitory in form, and to confine the injunction to the particular acts complained of and found by the court.

How often courts cite the case defining “blanket injunction”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “blanket injunction” — 2,645 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.