Orloski v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1993
9 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 Williams v. Commonwealth · Unemployment Compensation Board of Review of the Commonwealth v. Walton · Lytle v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Unemployment Compensation Board of Review v. Vereen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. The claimant was suspended from . . . employment effective July 31, 1976 after being apprehended by the Postal Inspection Services on July 28, 1976 for the theft and destruction of mail. 3. Criminal charges were filed against the claimant regarding the theft and destruction of mail. 4. On July 5, 1977 the claimant was found guilty of the charges in Federal Court and was sentenced to three years probation. 5. The claimant did purloin and destroy mail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““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 disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has a right to expect of an employee, 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.