Wallace v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Martin v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (1983), Latella v. Commonwealth (1983)
42 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 Weinberger v. Salfi · Flemming v. Nestor · Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur · 158 Pa. Super. 548 - Sturdevant Unemployment Compensation Case · Turner v. Department of Employment Security and Board of Review of Industrial Commission of Utah
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employe shall be ineligible for compensation for any week . . . (2) In which his or her unemployment is due to leaving work (I) to accompany or to join his or her spouse in a new locality, or (II) because of a marital, filial or other domestic obligation or circumstance, whether or not such work is in `employment' as defined in this act: Provided, however, That the provisions of this subsection (2) shall not be applicable if the employe during a substantial part of the six months either prior to such leaving or the time of filing either an application or claim for benefits was the sole or major support of his or her family, and such work is not within a reasonable commuting distance from the new locality to which the employe has moved.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the context of an economics benefits statute such as in Unemployment Compensation Act, which does not involve a fundamental right, the classification established by the statute which, as here, is not inherently suspect will pass muster under the Equal Protection Clause if it bears some rational relationship to the legitimate purpose of the legislation [citation omitted]. The same level of scrutiny is applied in the due process analysis so that where no fundamental right is involved, the presence of some rational justification in the Act’s legislative purpose will suffice to protect a statutorily created conclusive presumption from effective constitutional attack. Weinberger v. Salfi [citation omitted].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because the absolute disqualification by Section 402(b)(2)(II) [1] of all unemployment compensation claimants who voluntarily terminate their employment for marital, filial or domestic reasons bears no rational relationship to a legitimate legislative purpose, it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution; because it denies such claimants individualized determinations of their entitlement to a significant property right when the administrative inconvenience of providing such determinations is negligible, it violates the Due Process Clause.”
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.