Midland Coal Company Old Republic Insurance Company v. Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs W’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.3d 486 · 2004
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Harman Mining Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (2012), U.S. Steel Mining Co. v. Director, OWCP (2004)
22 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Mead Corp. · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Greenwich Collieries · Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation v. Environmental Protection Agency · Pittston Coal Group v. Sebben
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ALJ must consider all relevant evidence on the issue of disability including medical opinions which are phrased in terms of total disability or provide a medical assessment of physical abilities or exertional limitations which lead to that conclusion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not show that the miner is totally disabled by the disease.” This could mean that the Director found that Bailey was not totally disabled or that Bailey was totally disabled but not due to COPD. Because it is unclear if the finding of total disability was deficient in the second claim, we will instead focus on the subsequent inquiry findings of pneumoconio-sis and a relationship to coal dust exposure. 2 . We note that “[w]hile it is true that Spese interpreted an earlier version of § 725.309, ... the revised regulations explicitly codified the holding of Spese.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an en banc decision of this court had ... squarely [held] that traditional principles of res judicata do not bar a subsequent application for black lung benefits where a miner demonstrates a material change in at least one of the conditions of entitlement.”
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.