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Walkowsky v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 1987
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Murraysville Telephone Co. v. Commonwealth · Zelonis 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “when an employe’s behavior constitutes a willful and wanton disregard of the employer’s interests, or the deliberate violation of the employer ’s rules, or the disregard of the standards of behavior which an employer can rightfully expect from his employe, or negligence which manifests culpability, wrongful intent, evil design, or intentional and substantial disregard for the employer’s interests or the employe’s duty and obligations.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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