Adelsberger v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.2d 82 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 802 · 30 U.S.C. § 901 (Black Lung Benefits Act) · 30 U.S.C. § 902 · 30 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · Roberts v. Weinberger · 389 F. Supp. 1296 - Johnson v. Weinberger · Lawson v. Weinberger
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means the breaking, crushing, sizing, cleaning, washing, drying, mixing, storing, and loading of bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite, and such other work of preparing such coal as is usually done by the operator of the coal mine. 11 The sparse case law construing the term”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, the presumption that the pneumoconiosis arose out of such employment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The coal was not extracted and prepared until it was taken from the mine to the place where it was processed and graded so as to be in condition for delivery to distributors and consumers”
1 later decision 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.