Swetman v. Gerace’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In the absence of unequivocal words requiring that result, we doubt that there was legislative intent to afford unemployment benefits to teachers after their normal work year when both employer and employee expect the resumption of the employment relationship and when legal liability would result from a refusal to perform, once the conditions, if any, have been satisfied."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robinson v. Administrator, Department of Employment Security · 356 So. 2d 477 - Robinson v. ADMINISTRATOR, DEPT. OF EMPLOYMENT SEC.

2. ““FINDINGS OF FACT: “The claimant has been employed at Southern University as a Teacher during the 1975-1976 academic year. Sometimes (sic), prior to the start of a new academic year a letter of reemployment is sent by the university; however, the individual is notified that their re-employment must be approved by the Board of Supervisors of Southern University. No formal notice is given until a contract is mailed to the claimant normally one week prior to the opening of school until possibly two weeks after the school semester has begun for the following academic year. The claimant was not notified that the services as Teacher at the University were not to be contracted for the 1976-1977 academic year.” “OPINION: “R.S. 23:1600(6) provides that an unemployed individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week only if the Administrator finds that benefits based on service in employment, defined in R.S. 23:1472(12)(F)(I) and (II) shall be payable in the same amount, on the same terms and subject to the same conditions as benefits payable on the basis of other employment subject to this chapter; except that benefits based on service in instructional research or principal administrative capacity in an institution of higher education (as defined in R.S. 23:1472(23)), the Louisiana State School for the Blind, the Southern University System State School for the Blind, the Louisiana State School for the Deaf, or the Southern University System State School for the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holmes v. State, Department of Employment Security