20 Va. App. 268 - Brockway v. Easter’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2019
11 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 15 Va. App. 613 - States Roofing Corp. v. Bush Construction Corp. · King v. Empire Collieries Co. · Mills v. Virginia Electric and Power Company · 8 Va. App. 330 - Spruill v. C. W. Wright Construction Co. · Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Thaxton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the rule is reasonable and applies to the situation from which the injury results, and whether the claimant knowingly violated it, is a mixed question of law and fact to be decided by the commission and reviewable by this Court. But the questions of whether an employee is guilty of willful misconduct and whether such misconduct is a proximate cause of the employee’s accident are issues of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A. No compensation shall be awarded ... for an injury ... caused by: Hi sj« H* H* H* H* (5) The employee’s willful breach of any reasonable rule or regulation adopted by the employer and brought, prior to the accident, to the knowledge of the employee; He Hi H< H« H* He B. The person or entity asserting any of the defenses in this section shall have the burden of proof with respect thereto.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To prevail on the defense of a willful violation of a safety rule, employer must prove that: (1) the safety rule was reasonable; (2) the rule was known to the employee; (3) the rule was promulgated for the benefit of the employee; and (4) the employee intentionally undertook the forbidden act.”
2 later decisions 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.