Sanchez v. Wohl Shoe Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A work[er] shall be responsible for the payment of his own attorneys’ fees, except that a work[er] shall be entitled to recover a reasonable attorneys’ fee from an employer: (2) in cases where the hearing officer finds that an employer acted in bad faith with regard to handling the injured work[er’s] claim and the injured work[er] has suffered economic loss as a result thereof. As used in this paragraph “bad faith” means conduct by the employer in the handling of a claim which amounts to fraud, malice, oppression or willful, wanton or reckless disregard of the rights of the work[er]. Any determination of bad faith shall be made by the hearing officer through a separate fact-finding proceeding[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cass v. Timberman Corp.