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Definitions from Case Law

From 394 U.S. 369 - Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · 1969Most cited · 1,255 citing opinions

Implicit in the statutory scheme, however, is the ultimate right of the disputants to resort to self-help—'the inevitable alternative in a statutory scheme which deliberately denies the final power to compel arbitration.

How often courts cite the case defining “self-help”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “self-help” — 1,229 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.