17 Or. App. 428 - Stevenson v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2013
23 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'Good cause’ may be said to be such cause as would similarly affect persons of reasonable and normal sensitivity, * * * and is limited to those instances where the unemployment is caused by external pressures so compelling that a reasonably prudent person, exercising ordinary common sense and prudence, would be justified in quitting work under similar circumstances. * * *” (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cause sufficient to justify an employee's voluntarily leaving the ranks of the employed and joining the ranks of the unemployed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonably motivate in a similar situation the average able-bodied and qualified worker to give up his or her 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.