Smith v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2007
13 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 102 So. 2d 259 - Sewell v. Sharp · 99 So. 2d 387 - Lacombe v. Sharp · 130 So. 2d 520 - Prenell v. Brown · Jackson v. Brown · Green v. Brown
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The nature of misconduct within the meaning of the statute has been adequately defined by our courts, in numerous instances, as primarily constituting an act evidencing a wanton or willful disregard of an employer’s interests.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sykes v. Doyal“"An individual shall be disqualified from benefits: "(1) If the administrator finds that he has left his employment without good cause connected with his employment ...."”
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.