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← 401 FSUPP 9 - Harness v. Weinberger

Harness v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
October 1978
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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Applies 30 U.S.C. § 901 (Black Lung Benefits Act)

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. ““A chest roentgenogram (X-ray) establishes the existence of pneumoconiosis. . . . ””
    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.