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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1956

printed as Table 10 · source page 185 · nlrb1956_p0185_t0

Method and stage of dispositionAll R casesRC casesRM casesRD cases
Method and stage of dispositionNumber of casesPercent of cases closedNumber of casesPercent of cases closedNumber of casesPercent of cases closedNumber of casesPercent of cases closed
Total number of cases closed8,070100.07,093100.0602100.0375100.0
Consent election2,13126.41,98127.910317.14712.5
Before notice of hearing1,46818.21,37319.46811.3277.2
After notice of hearing, before hearing opened5847.25357.5345.6154.0
After hearing opened, before Board decision791.0731.01.251.3
Stipulated election1,75721.81,63423.09716.1267.0
Before notice of hearing90311.282711.76811.382.2
After notice of hearing, before hearing opened6217.75918.3162.6143.7
After hearing opened, before Board decision931.2861.261.01.3
After postelection decision1401.71301.871.23.8
Withdrawn1,95924.31,62422.920333.713235.2
Before notice of hearing1,19514.81,00414.111218.67921.1
After notice of hearing, before hearing opened5637.04406.27812.94512.0
After hearing opened, before Board decision1191.51041.591.561.6
After Board decision and direction of election821.0761.14.72.5
Dismissed97512.173910.412320.511330.1
Before notice of hearing5967.44586.47111.86717.9
After notice of hearing, before hearing opened821.059.8122.0112.9
After hearing opened, before Board decision24.319.33.52.5
By Board decision2733.42032.9376.2338.8
Board-ordered election1,24015.31,11015.77312.15715.2
Otherwise8.15.13.50.0

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  1. 1 See table 1, footnote 3, for definitions of types of cases
  2. 2 Includes 11 RC, 12 RM, and 10 RD cases dismissed by Board order after a direction of election issued but before an election was held.

87 of 87 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 185. Grid is 9 columns: stub plus four case-type panels (All R, RC, RM, RD), each with a "Number of cases" and a "Percent of cases closed" column. The stub heading "Method and stage of disposition" spans both header levels and is repeated in each. Decimal points: the scan is a coarse bitonal image in which many decimal points in the percent columns failed to print/reproduce, so they appear as a blank gap (e.g. RC "100 0" in the total row, All R "18 2" and RD "7 2" in the first "Before notice of hearing" row, All R "24 3" and RC "22 9" in "Withdrawn", RC "15 7" and RM "12 1" in "Board-ordered election", and similar cells elsewhere). These are unambiguously one-decimal percentages in a column where every other value is printed with a point, so I transcribed them with the decimal point restored rather than as a space. No digits were altered. "By Board decision", All R cases / Number of cases: printed as a raised 2 immediately before 273; read as the footnote-2 marker and recorded as 273^2. Indentation is not encoded in the grid: the indented rows ("Before notice of hearing", "After notice of hearing, before hearing opened", "After hearing opened, before Board decision", "After Board decision and direction of election", "After postelection decision") are subordinate to the preceding flush-left method row (Consent election, Stipulated election, Withdrawn, Dismissed), and several of those labels repeat verbatim under more than one method. Arithmetic as printed: the method-level numbers for All R cases (2,131 + 1,757 + 1,959 + 975 + 1,240 + 8) sum to 8,070, matching the printed total; no misprints detected. Nothing appears cut off by the crop.

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Source page 185 of NLRB FY1956 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1956, p. 185.

Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.