195 W. Va. 416 - Smittle v. Gatson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Truitt Manufacturing Co. · Philco Corp. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Erie Forge & Steel Corp. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · 170 W. Va. 162 - Lee-Norse Co. v. Rutledge · 192 W. Va. 561 - Adkins v. Gatson
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.
“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.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nemployment compensation statutes, being remedial in nature, should be liberally construed to achieve the benign purposes intended to the full extent thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[T]he employer shutdown exception . . . applies when an employer rejects continuing the expiring contract for a reasonable time to force wage reduction, changes in hours or working conditions. The determination of when an employer is trying to force wage reduction or other changes in benefits . . . is made by comparing the employer's proposed change(s) to the status quo as shown by the expiring contract. If the employer's proposed change(s) would result in detrimental terms for the employee, then the employer is considered to be seeking to force wage reduction, changes in hours or working conditions." Id., at 883-884.”
1 later decision 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.