Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc., and Each of Its Member Companies Listed, Association of Bituminous Contractors, Inc., Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Secretary of Interior, Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc., and Each of Its Member Companies Listed, Association of Bituminous Contractors, Inc. v. Secretary of Interior’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Thunder Basin Coal Co. v. Reich (1994), Brock v. Cathedral Bluffs Shale Oil Co. (1986)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · Whitney National Bank in Jefferson Parish v. Bank of New Orleans & Trust Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America · Rusk v. Cort
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) “operator” means any owner, lessee, or other person who operates, controls, or supervises a coal mine .”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appear in all four titles of Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, titles II and III are”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor on Behalf of Thomas L. Williams v. Peabody Coal Company and Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, Chapman Merrell v. Peabody Coal Company and Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, United Mine Workers of America on Behalf of James Rowe v. Peabody Coal Company, William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, on Behalf of I.B. Acton v. Jim Walter Resources, Inc., and Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, United Mine Workers of America v. Jim Walter Resources, Inc., and Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission · Old Dominion Power Co. v. Donovan“(h) “coal mine” means an area of land and all structures, facilities, machinery, tools, equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels, excavations and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under, or above the surface of such land by any person, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting in such area bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite from its natural deposits in the earth by any means or method, and the work of preparing the coal so extracted, and includes custom coal preparation facilities .”
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.