Association of Bituminous Contractors, Inc. v. Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary of the Interior, U. S. Department of the Interior. Appeal of United Mine Workers of America. Association of Bituminous Contractors, Inc. v. Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary of the Interior, U. S. Department of the Interior, United Mine Workers of America, Party-Defendant’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably United States v. Jones (1984), Otherson v. Department of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service (1983)
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Jenkins v. McKeithen · Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner · United States v. Storer Broadcasting Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any owner, lessee or other person who operates, controls, or supervises a coal mine.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the definition of operator under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act its rationale also sheds light on the interpretation of the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. National Industrial Sand Association, a Delaware Corporation, the China Clay Producers, Intervenor v. F. Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, and Robert B. Lagather, Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor, the Council of the Southern Mountains, Inc. v. F. Ray Marshall, in His Capacity as Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, and Robert Lagather, in His Capacity as Assistant Secretary of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, China Clay Producers, Intervenor · National Industrial Sand Ass'n v. Marshall“of like kind and character to the designated 'owner(§ or) lessee(s) designated.' " In so defining "operator,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. National Industrial Sand Association, a Delaware Corporation, the China Clay Producers, Intervenor v. F. Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, and Robert B. Lagather, Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health Administration, United States Department of Labor, the Council of the Southern Mountains, Inc. v. F. Ray Marshall, in His Capacity as Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, and Robert Lagather, in His Capacity as Assistant Secretary of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, China Clay Producers, Intervenor · National Industrial Sand Ass'n v. Marshall
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.