Barnum v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 17 N.C. App. 340 - In Re Collingsworth (1973), Miller v. West (1972)
54 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 Urban Renewal Agency of City of Reno v. Iacometti · McKenzie v. Shelly · Bd. Chiropractic Exam'rs v. Babtkis
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Carelessness or negligence on the part of the employee of such a degree as to show a substantial disregard of the employer’s interests or the employee’s duties and obligations to his employer are also considered misconduct connected with the work. ...””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the findings of fact and conclusions of law submitted by the appeals referee were supported by the evidence presented at the hearings”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Rosner
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.