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Matson Terminals, Inc. v. Berg’s Empirical Analysis

279 F.3d 694 · 2002

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
September 2012
most recently cited

5 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 908 · 33 U.S.C. § 921

Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Port of Portland v. Director, Office of Workers Compensation Programs · Force v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Howard

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

  1. “accord considerable weight to the construction of the statute urged by the Director of the [OWCP] as [s]he is charged with administering”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “We will defer to the Director's view unless it constitutes an unreasonable reading of the statute or is contrary to legislative intent.”
    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.