139 W. Va. 75 - Bennett v. Hix’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably 140 W. Va. 875 - State v. Loveless (1955), 169 W. Va. 520 - Kirk v. Cole (1982)
41 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Phillips v. Walling US · Nordling v. Ford Motor Co. · Moen v. Director of the Division of Employment Security · 164 Pa. Super. 36 - Mattey v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · 136 W. Va. 59 - Wilson v. Hix
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The liability to pay and the right to receive unemployment compensation benefits rests upon the Unemployment Compensation Act. And such Act, being remedial in nature, its beneficent provisions should be liberally applied. Bennett v. Hix, 139 W.Va. 75 at 83 , 79 S.E.2d 114 at 118 (1953).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Upon the determination of the facts by the commissioner, an individual shall be disqualified for benefits: (2) For the week in which he was discharged from his most recent work for misconduct and the six weeks immediately following such week; or for the week in which he was discharged from his last thirty-day employing unit for misconduct and the six weeks immediately following such week. Such disqualification shall carry a reduction in the maximum benefit amount equal to six times the individual’s weekly benefit.”
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.