175 W. Va. 562 - Pennington v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 139 W. Va. 75 - Bennett v. Hix · 171 W. Va. 164 - Gibson v. Rutledge · 172 W. Va. 383 - Belt v. Cole · 161 W. Va. 575 - London v. Board of Review of the W. Va. Dept. of Employment Security
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Unemployment compensation statutes, being remedial in nature, should be liberally construed to achieve the benign purposes intended to the full extent thereof.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“wages, hours or conditions of employment substantially less favorable than those prevailing for similar work in the locality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.