Bill Branch Coal Corporation v. Shirley Sparks Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs United States Department of Labor’s Empirical Analysis
213 F.3d 186 · 2000
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Collins v. Pond Creek Mining Co. (2006), Barrett v. Barnhart (2004)
7 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 Milburn Colliery Co. v. Hicks · Shuff v. Cedar Coal Co. · Piney Mountain Coal Co. v. Mays · Sterling Smokeless Coal Co. v. Akers · Lango v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis Coal Company
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.