Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 303 · 1997
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Glen Coal Company v. Seals (1998), Pool Co. v. Cooper (2001)
12 federal appellate ·
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 Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs Department of Labor v. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company · Ball Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. Mutual Hospital Insurance · Polanco v. City of Austin · Strachan Shipping Co. v. Nash · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor v. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company v. Jackie H. Harcum
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more than a scintilla but less than a preponderance”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is materially and substantially greater than that which would have resulted from the subsequent injury alone.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only function is to correct errors of law and to determine if the [Board] . . . deferred to the ALJ's fact-finding. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.