Grigg v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 416 · 1994
Citation profile
54 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co. v. Webb (1995), Collins v. Pond Creek Mining Co. (2006)
54 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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Pauley v. BethEnergy Mines, Inc. · Mullins Coal Co. of Va. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Bethlehem Mines Corp. v. Massey · Tussey v. Island Creek Coal Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“premised [his opinion] on an erroneous finding that the claimant does not suffer from pneumoconiosis.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such opinions are not worthy of much, if any, weight.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish[ ] that the total disability ... did not arise in whole or in part out of coal mine employment,”
2 later decisions 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.