Blessings v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
July 1986
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Geesey v. Commonwealth · Harbutz v. Commonwealth · Miokovic Unemployment Compensation Case · Romeo Unemployment Compensation Case
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An employer has the right to expect an employee on sick leave to return to work when cleared to do so by his physician or at least to notify the employer of his reasons for failing to do so ... a deliberate attempt by an employee to mislead his employer would clearly constitute willful misconduct.””
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.