Sharpless v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 664 · 1978
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1994 · most notably Mullins Coal Co. of Va. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1988), Pavesi v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor (1985)
21 federal appellate · 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 Treadway v. Califano · Campbell v. Weinberger · 407 F. Supp. 1043 - Welsh v. Weinberger · 403 F. Supp. 95 - Ward v. Mathews
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
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4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(4) If a miner was employed for fifteen years or more in one or more underground coal mines, and if there is a chest roentgenogram submitted in connection with such miner's ... claim under this subchapter and it is interpreted as negative with respect to the requirements of paragraph (3) of this subsection, and if other evidence demonstrates the existence of a totally disabling respiratory or pulmonary impairment, then there shall be a rebuttable presumption that such miner is totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis, that his death was due to pneumoconiosis, or that at the time of his death he was totally disabled by pneumoconiosis.... The Secretary may rebut such presumption only by establishing that (A) such miner does not, or did not, have pneumoco-niosis, or that (B) his respiratory or pulmonary impairment did not arise out of, or in connection with, employment in a coal mine. . This provision is repeated in the Subpart C regulations at 20 C.F.R. § 718.305 (a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A miner shall be considered totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis if: (1) His pneumoconiosis prevents him from engaging in gainful work in the immediate area of his residence requiring the skills and abilities comparable to those of any work in a mine or mines in which he previously engaged with some regularity and over a substantial period of time (that is, ‘comparable and gainful work’; see §§ 410.424 — 410.426); and (2) His impairment can be expected to result in death, or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prater v. Harris
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.