174 W. Va. 423 - Murray v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 188 W. Va. 144 - Slack v. Kanawha County Housing & Redevelopment Authority (1992), 176 W. Va. 265 - Brewster v. Rutledge (1986)
27 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 33 Colo. App. 30 - Wade v. Hurley · Glionna v. Chizek · 125 Ill. App. 3d 67 - Davis v. Board of Review of the Department of Labor · 149 So. 2d 188 - McGinnis v. Moreau · 172 W. Va. 730 - Lough v. Cole
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ubstantial unilateral changes in the terms of employment furnish `good cause involving fault on the part of the employer' which justify employee termination of employment and preclude disqualification from the receipt of unemployment compensation benefits.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Customary working conditions, not involving deceit or other wrongful conduct on the part of the employer are not a sufficient reason for an employee to leave his most recent work voluntar-ily_’ Syl., Amherst Coal Co. v. Hix, 128 W.Va. 119 , 35 S.E.2d 733 (1945).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Further, for the purpose of this subdivision, an individual shall not be deemed to have left his most recent work voluntarily without good cause involving fault on the part of the employer, if such individual was compelled to leave his work for his own health-related reasons and presents certification from a licensed physician that his work aggravated, worsened, or will worsen the individual’s health problem."”
2 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.