Hodges v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 12 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It may well be that the employer is justified in having a rule making any employee engaging in a fight subject to discharge, but the existence of such rule does not necessarily mean that the discharged employee is guilty of misconduct within the meaning of the Arkansas Employment Security Law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rucker v. Price · Fulgham v. Director, Employment Security Department

2. “The general rule is that misconduct, within the meaning of the unemployment compensation act excluding from its benefits an employee discharged for misconduct, must be an act of wanton or willful disregard of the employer’s interest, a deliberate violation of the employer’s rules, a disregard of the standard of behavior which the employer has a right to expect of its employees. Stagecoach Motel v. Krause, 267 Ark. 1093 , 593 S.W.2d 495 (1980).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lakeside School v. Harrington