Bortz v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McLean v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Gwin v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review · Dearolf v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nformative communication with the employer may be a factor in sustaining the employees burden to establish good cause for a violation, and, in those situations, the employee, where feasible, must notify his employer of the reason for refusing to comply with rules, unless the reason for noncompliance is self-evident, or unless the employer is independently aware of the circumstances warranting noncompliance.”
2 later decisions 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.