Johnson v. Whitfield’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2007
5 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 431 So. 2d 432 - Southeastern Louisiana University v. Shelton · 134 So. 2d 388 - Johnson v. Brown · 353 So. 2d 363 - Dorsey v. ADMINISTRATOR, LOUISIANA DEPT., ETC. · 274 So. 2d 438 - Atkins v. Doyal · Washington v. Sumrall
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Misconduct” has been consistently interpreted to mean an “act of willful or wanton disregard of the employer’s interest; a deliberate violation of the employer’s rules; a disregard of standards of behavior that the employer has a right to expect from his employee; or negligence in such degree or recurrence as to manifest culpability, wrongful interest, or evil design, or show an intentional or substantial disregard of the employer’s interest or of the employee’s duties and obligations to the employer.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We believe the better rule to be that even a single violation can sustain a denial of benefits. One must look to the nature of the violation with due consideration of the factors which enter into the proper conduct of the employer’s work and business.”
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.