Dolan v. Svitak’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Law Offices of Ronald J. Palagi, P.C. v. Dolan (1997), Edward E. v. Clayton (1995)
26 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 4 Va. App. 270 - Blake v. Hercules, Inc. · Stuart v. Omaha Porkers, Inc. · Weller v. Arizona Department of Economic Security · 31 Ark. App. 81 - Grace Drilling Co. v. Director of Labor · Lee v. Nebraska State Racing Commission
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A rule laid down by the employer governing off-duty conduct of his employees must have a reasonable relationship to the employer’s interests in order that [a] violation thereof will constitute misconduct barring eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits.”
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.