MacFarlane v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably O'Keefe v. Commonwealth (1975), Williams v. Commonwealth (1977)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kentucky Fried Chicken of Altoona, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Harmer Unemployment Compensation Case · Homony v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Harbutz v. Commonwealth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An act of wanton or willful disregard of the employer’s interest, a deliberate violation of the employer’s rules, a disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has the right to expect of his employee, or negligence in such degree or recurrence as to manifest culpability, wrongful intent, or evil design, or show an intentional and substantial disregard of the employer’s interest or of the employee’s duties and obligations to the employer.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ (e) in which his unemployment is due to his discharge or temporary suspension from work for willful misconduct connected with his work. . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“] there is an element indicating a consciousness of wrong-doing on the part of the employe [sic]. The use of such words as”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.