85 Wash. 2d 836 - Matison v. Hutt’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1998
8 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 63 Wash. 2d 83 - Boeing Airplane Co. v. Employment Security Department · Saulls v. Employment Security Agency · 27 Conn. Super. Ct. 446 - Lemelin v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act · O'Donnell v. Unemployment Compensation Commission · 28 Conn. Super. Ct. 394 - Douton v. Administrator
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reality of a working person’s life. People earning rather minimum wages are especially dependent upon current health and welfare coverage and potential pension benefits. That those benefits arose from voluntary membership in a union does not diminish their real and substantial impact upon and importance to these plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For the reasons heretofore stated, the trial court erred in concluding that the words "good cause," as used in RCW 50.20.050, supra, mean a cause "attributable to or connected with the claimant's employment"; and we hold "good cause" for termination of employment, under the statute, may include compelling personal reasons.”
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.