Batiste v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Misconduct which will deprive an employee of unemployment compensation requires more than mere inefficiency or unsatisfactory conduct, or a failure in good performance as the result of inability or incapacity, or errors in judgment or discretion committed in good faith. Such misconduct is not shown by a single dereliction or minor and casual acts of negligence or carelessness, or by inadvertencies or ordinary negligence in isolated instances,’ 81 C.J.S. Social Security and Public Welfare § 162, pp. 246-247.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 148 So. 2d 459 - Ciufo v. Brown

2. “if by direct proof or as an inference from the circumstances it appears that an employee's violations of rules, causing his discharge, were the result of thoughtlessness or inadvertence, he is not guilty of willful misconduct rendering him ineligible for unemployment benefits,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 134 So. 2d 384 - Turner v. Brown

3. “an act of wanton or willful disregard of the employer's interests, a deliberate violation of the employer's rules, and a disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has a right to expect of his employees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 157 So. 2d 268 - Goff v. Administrator of Division of Employment SEC.