Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
449 federal appellate · 11 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 702 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc (1988), Schweiker v. Gray Panthers (1981)
449 federal appellate · 11 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPotomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 908 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act)
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Reed v. Steamship Yaka · Cardillo US v. Liberty Mut Ins Co · Voris v. Eikel
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 702 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not entitled to any special deference from the courts.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“incapacity because of injury to earn the wages which the employee was receiving at the time of injury in the same or any other employment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“employees' interest in receiving a prompt and certain recovery for their industrial injuries as well as ... the employers' interest in having their contingent liabilities identified as precisely and as early as possible.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.