17 N.C. App. 340 - In Re Collingsworth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boynton Cab Co. v. Neubeck · 35 Wis. 2d 332 - Fitzgerald v. Globe-Union, Inc. · Barnum v. Williams · Carter v. Employment Security Commission · 191 So. 2d 349 - Hall v. Doyal
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [T]he term ‘misconduct’ [in connection with one’s work] is limited to conduct evincing such wilful or wanton disregard of an employer’s interests] as is found in deliberate violations or disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has the right to expect of his employee, or in carelessness or negligence of such degree or recurrence as to manifest equal culpability, wrongful intent or evil design, or to show an intentional and substantial disregard of the employer’s interests or of the employee’s duties and obligations to his employer. * * *”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * * (2) . . . if it is determined by the Commission that such individual is, at the time such claim is filed, unemployed because he was discharged for misconduct connected with his work.”
3 later decisions 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.