130 W. Va. 343 - Copen v. Hix’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix (1954), Wilson v. Employment Security Commission (1963)
26 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a stoppage of work due to a labor dispute is the basis of a claim for unemployment compensation ..., the burden rests upon the applicant to show to the satisfaction of the Director of Unemployment Compensation that he was not participating, financing, or directly interested in such labor dispute and that he did not belong to a grade or class of workers who were.”
1 later decision 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.