Hunt v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2013
8 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 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 174 W. Va. 423 - Murray v. Rutledge · 174 W. Va. 417 - Perfin v. Cole · 174 W. Va. 476 - Bailey 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"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."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glass v. Gatson
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.