Peter J. Brennan, Secretary of U. S. Department of Labor v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and Ron M. Fiegen, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.2d 713 · 1975
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Diebold, Inc. v. Marshall (1978), 6 O.S.H. Cas.(bna) 1440, 1978 O.S.H.D. (Cch) P 22,628 Bethlehem Steel Corporation v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and F. Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor (1978)
29 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 Meehan v. Macy · Brennan v. Gilles & Cotting, Inc. · Meehan v. Macy · Meehan v. Macy · Brennan v. Southern Contractors Service
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the Commission has given the regulation an interpretation well within the plain meaning of its terms, we cannot say that the Commission's reading is unreasonable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 6 O.S.H. Cas.(bna) 2039, 1978 O.S.H.D. (Cch) P 23,140 Danco Construction Company v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission and Secretary of Labor · 6 O.S.H. Cas.(bna) 1751, 1978 O.S.H.D. (Cch) P 22,840 Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor v. Southwestern Industrial Contractors and Riggers, Inc. And Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission“(the) regulation, as presently formulated, does not necessarily make illegal a failure to use safety nets where employees are working on a scaffold or temporary floor, regardless of the safety features of such a floor or scaffold.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the Commission and not the Secretary which is charged with the final administrative adjudication of the Act. 29 U.S.C. Sec. 659.”
2 later decisions 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.