Goodwin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he question of whether a claimant has removed himself from the labor market is a matter of drawing the line between those cases where a claim of reasonable availability is patently untenable and those in which a factual inquiry should be conducted as to the conditions of the local labor market.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tanase v. Commonwealth · Percosky v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

2. “Our courts have frequently said that a clannant need not be available for any and all types of work in order to be “available” and eligible for benefits under the law. (Citation omitted.) Rather, the essential question is whether the claimant’s limitation on his availabiEty effectively removes him from his or her local labor market. Myers v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 17 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 281 , 330 A.2d 886 (1975).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Percosky v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

3. “the essential question is whether the claimant’s limitation on his availability effectively re moves bim from Ms or her local labor market. . . . Moreover, to support a finding that the claimant is ineligible under Section 401(d) there must be sufficient evidence in the record to conclude that a search for employment would be an endeavor which would have an unreasonably low possibility of success.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seward v. Commonwealth