169 W. Va. 520 - Kirk v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 171 W. Va. 164 - Gibson v. Rutledge (1982), Vester v. Board of Review of Oklahoma Employment Security Commission (1985)
36 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 Boynton Cab Co. v. Neubeck · Frumento v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REV. · Frumento v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 139 W. Va. 75 - Bennett 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... conduct evincing such willful and wanton disregard of an employer’s interest as is found in deliberate violations or disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has a right to expect of his employee, ...On the other hand, ... good faith errors in judgment ... are not to be deemed “misconduct” within the meaning of the statute.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“discharged from his most recent work for [ordinary] misconduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]rovide reasonable and effective means for the promotion of social and economic security by reducing as far as practicable the hazards of unemployment. In the furtherance of this objective, the legislature establishes a compulsory system of unemployment reserves in order to: (1) Provide a measure of security to the families of unemployed persons. (2) Guard against the menace to health, morals and welfare arising from unemployment. (3) Maintain as great purchasing power as possible, with a view to sustaining the economic system during periods of economic depression. (4) Stimulate stability of employment as a requisite of social and economic security- (5) Allay and prevent the debilitating consequences of poor relief assistance.”
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.