Paluso v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 33 · 1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Richardson v. Perales · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Desist v. United States · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are of the view that all reasonable inferences and presumptions should be construed in favor of a miner who when he filed his claim believed that he was suffering from black lung, even though he had not mustered sufficient evidence of his disability prior to the cut-off date. We anchor this approach to a variety of factors, including a claimant’s ignorance or misunderstanding of eligibility standards, lack of adequate medical evidence due to the progressive nature of black lung disease, a miner’s financial inability to seek proper medical confirmation, and inexact methods of diagnosis. It is a matter of overriding importance that the Act is remedial in nature and is to be given liberal construction, (citations). * * * * * * Any doubts which arise as to when black lung caused total disability are to be resolved in favor of these good faith claimants. Id. at 10 (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bohn v. Harris
How this case has been treated — in progress
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