Weaver v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2023
15 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 8502 · 5 U.S.C. § 8506
Relies on United States v. Sherwood · Boynton Cab Co. v. Neubeck · United States v. Hellard · Spaulding v. Florida Industrial Commission · 168 Pa. Super. 291 - Detterer Unemployment Compensation Case
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he disqualification because of "misconduct connected with their work" provision, being penal in nature, is to be construed liberally in favor of the employee so as to minimize the penal character of the provision by excluding cases not clearly intended to be within the exception.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Depending on the specific provisions of the statute, in order to disqualify an employee for unemployment benefits his misconduct must be in the course of his most recent work, connected with his work, or connected with the employment. Under such provisions, it is not necessary that the act of misconduct occur during the working hours or at the place of employment, so long as it is connected with the employment, and the fact that misconduct relates to the private life or off-duty activities of the employee does not necessarily preclude its having a connection with the employment requisite to bar the right to compensation. Ordinarily, however, an employee’s conduct off the working premises or outside the course or scope of his employment is not considered as misconduct in connection with employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Neeley““Unless the employee’s wrongdoing violates a duty owed to the employer, it cannot amount to that ‘misconduct connected mth his work’ which serves to disqualify him to receive unemployment insurance benefits, although it may fully justify the employer in discharging him.””
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.