Morris v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.2d 563 · 1977
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Adams v. Director, OWCP (1989), Gober v. Matthews (1978)
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
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 Ansel v. Weinberger · 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Let us stop quibbling with dying men as to whether their lungs are riddled with black lung or whether they are affected with asthma, or silicosis, or chronic bronchitis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“compensate miners, and the widows and children of miners, whose lives and health have been sacrificed in the production of that critical energy source--coal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is obvious that the negative X-rays may not be [relied] upon [to] rebut the presumption of Section 921(c)(4). If he had been able to produce a positive X-ray, there would have been no need to invoke the presumption. The very existence of a negative X-ray is a prerequisite to reliance upon the presumption of pneumoconiosis as established by other evidence. Furthermore, under the 1972 amendment, negative X-ray evidence may not be the sole basis for a denial of benefits. 30 U.S.C. § 923 (b).”
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.