A.T. Massey Coal Co. v. Massanari’s Empirical Analysis
305 F.3d 226 · 2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez-Preciado (2005), United States v. Brown (2011)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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 Marks v. United States · Barnhart v. Sigmon Coal Co. · Eastern Enterprises v. Apfel · King v. Palmer · Sigmon Coal Co. v. Apfel
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Marks is workable — one opinion can meaningfully be regarded as “narrower” than another — only when one opinion is a logical subset of other, broader opinions. In essence, the narrowest opinion must present a common denominator of the Court’s reasoning; it must embody a position implicitly approved by at least five Justices who support the judgment. ... When ... one opinion supporting the judgment does not fit entirely within a broader circle drawn by the others, Marks is problematic. If applied in situations where the various opinions supporting the judgment are mutually exclusive, Marks will turn a single opinion that lacks majority support into national law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to Eastern Enterprises because it had not signed the 1974 or any subsequent NBCWA; therefore, all assignments to it should be similarly invalid. The Fourth Circuit rejected Massey's argument, explaining that a coal operator would be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to alleviate a crisis in the funding of [retired miners'] health benefits that engulfed the coal industry in the late 1980s.”
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.