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43 F.3d 109 · 1995

Citation profile

cited by 41 later decisions

July 2016

most recently cited

27 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Collins v. Pond Creek Mining Co. (2006), Piney Mountain Coal Co. v. Mays (1999)

27 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 · Lane v. Peterson · Adair v. United States · Mullins Coal Co. of Va. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · First National Bank of Cicero v. Lewco Securities Corp

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

“[A]n ALJ who has found (or has assumed arguendo) that a claimant suffers from pneumoconiosis and has total pulmonary disability may not credit a medical opinion that the former did not cause the latter unless the ALJ can and does identify specific and persuasive reasons for concluding that the doctor’s judgment on the question of disability causation does not rest upon her disagreement with the ALJ’s finding as to either or both of the predicates in the causal chain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Collins v. Pond Creek Mining Co.
“a medical opinion that a claimant does not have a respiratory or pulmonary impairment cannot rebut the interim presumption, raised by a chest x-ray showing pneumoconiosis, ... where the physician premised his opinion on a determination that the claimant does not have pneumoconiosis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Curry v. Beatrice Pocahontas Coal Co.
“We have ... disapproved similarly paradoxical reasoning in analogous circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Warth v. Southern Ohio Coal Co.

How this case has been treated — in progress

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