175 W. Va. 683 - Gordon v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 170 W. Va. 162 - Lee-Norse Co. v. Rutledge · 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 139 W. Va. 75 - Bennett v. Hix · 172 W. Va. 383 - Belt v. Cole · 172 W. Va. 386 - United Mine Workers of America International Union Ex Rel. Trumka v. Parsons
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The findings of fact of the Board of Review of the West Virginia Department of Employment Security are entitled to substantial deference unless a reviewing court believes the findings are clearly wrong. If the question on review is one purely of law, no deference is given and the standard of judicial review by the court is de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`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“to accept 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.