Michael Holland’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 district · 6 state decisions

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

1. “Eastern Enterprises can only be viewed as rendering a decision that Congress acted arbitrarily in imposing retroactive liability on a signatory to [National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreements] in existence prior to those that promised lifetime health benefits to retired miners when that signatory made no promise of lifetime benefits, did not contribute to the problem that caused the funding shortfall for the promised lifetime benefits or to the need for such benefits, and was not put on notice by any governmental action during the relevant time period that it might be subjected to later liability.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Holland v. Virginia Lee Co. · 229 F. Supp. 2d 539 - Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. v. Barnhart

2. “Generally, issues that were not raised in the district court will not be addressed on appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Pinney Md · No. 06-4611

3. “`there was strong precedent' prior to the change.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 5 F. App'x 111 - Westchester Fire Insurance v. Johnson · Brundridge v. Fluor Federal Services, Inc.