free riders
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 373 U.S. 734 - National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp. · 1963Most cited · 619 citing opinions
employees who receive the benefits of union representation but are unwilling to contribute their fair share of financial support to such union
How often courts cite the case defining “free riders”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “free riders” — 619 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.