Blake v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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 Kentucky Fried Chicken of Altoona, Inc. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Curtis v. Commonwealth · Miller v. Commonwealth · Frazier v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Grace 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'there is a critical distinction between the employer's right to terminate employment and the state's right to deny unemployment benefits.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an intentional and substantial disregard of ... [his] 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.