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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”

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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.