Edgar McCord T/a Mac's Cities Service v. John F. Cephas, Deceased, Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor v. Malinda Cephas’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 1377 · 1976
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor v. Peabody Coal Company and Old Republic Insurance Company, Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor v. Southwestern Illinois Coal Corporation (1977), Blevins v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1982)
25 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 Crowell v. Benson · Banks v. Chicago Grain Trimmers Assn., Inc. · O'KEEFFE v. Aerojet-General Shipyards, Inc. · Case v. Calbeck
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mistake in a determination of fact (which) makes such a modification desirable in order to render justice under the act.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(T)he basic criterion is whether reopening will 'render justice under the act.'... 11 The congressional purpose in passing the law would be thwarted by any lightly considered reopening at the behest of an employer who, right or wrong, could have presented his side of the case at the first hearing and who, if right, could have thereby saved all parties a considerable amount of expense and protracted litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to correct mistakes of fact whether demonstrated by wholly new evidence, cumulative evidence, or merely further reflection on the evidence initially submitted.”
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.