Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Bath Iron Works Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate ·

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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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “so that this amount may be compared to the total percentage of the partial disability for which coverage under the LHWCA is sought.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Newport News Shipbuilding And Dry Dock Company v. Frederick M. Stallings · Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Pounders

2. “1) that the [employee's] ultimate disability is not caused solely by the work-related injury, but is also caused in part by a pre-existing partial disability; 2) that the pre-existing disability was manifest to the employer prior to the work-related injury; and 3) that the ultimate permanent partial disability materially and substantially exceeded the disability that would have resulted from the work-related injury alone [that is, without] the pre-existing condition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Newport News Shipbuilding And Dry Dock Company v. Frederick M. Stallings

3. “when an 'employment injury aggravates, accelerates, or combines with a preexisting impairment to produce a disability greater than that which would have resulted from the employment injury alone, the entire resulting disability is compensable.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Glen Coal Company v. Seals