176 W. Va. 265 - Brewster v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2013
17 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 170 W. Va. 162 - Lee-Norse Co. v. Rutledge · 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 166 W. Va. 675 - Kisamore v. Rutledge · 147 W. Va. 630 - Cumberland and Allegheny Gas Company v. Hatcher · 174 W. Va. 423 - Murray v. Rutledge
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Substantial 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Findings of fact by the Board of Review of the West Virginia Department of Employment Security, in an unemployment compensation case, should not be set aside unless such findings are plainly wrong; however, the plainly wrong doctrine does not apply to conclusions of law by the Board of Review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) For the week in which he left his most recent work voluntarily without good cause involving fault on the part of the employer and until the individual returns to covered employment and has been employed in covered employment at least thirty working days.”
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.