Wardlow v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 1985
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Owen v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Williams v. Commonwealth · Harbutz v. Commonwealth · Rieder v. Commonwealth
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.
“‘ “Willful misconduct” . . . has been held to comprehend an act of wanton or willful disregard of the employer’s interest, a deliberate violation of the employer’s rules, a disregafd of standards of behavior which the employer has a right to expect of an employe, or negligence indicating an intentional disregard of the employer’s interest or of the employe’s duties and obligations to the employer. ’”
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.