Ansel v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 304 · 1976
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Stapleton v. Westmoreland Coal Co. (1986), Gober v. Matthews (1978)
67 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 801 (Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972) · 30 U.S.C. § 902 · 30 U.S.C. § 921 · 30 U.S.C. § 923
Relies on Whitson v. Finch
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Secretary would have been required at least to produce a medical opinion that Mr. Ansel did not have pneumoconiosis in order to rebut the presumption”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) such miner does not, or did not, have pneumoconiosis, or that (B) his respiratory or pulmonary impairment did not arise out of, or in connection with, employment in a coal mine”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a totally disabling chronic respiratory or pulmonary impairment,”
3 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.