United States Steel Corp. v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 1022 · 1979
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Stapleton v. Westmoreland Coal Co. (1986), Underhill v. Peabody Coal Co. (1982)
20 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
Relies on Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · United States v. Schooner Peggy · Ansel v. Weinberger · Morris v. Mathews · Treadway v. Califano
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a chronic dust disease of the lung and its sequelae, including respiratory and pulmonary impairments, arising out of coal mine employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute shifts to the Secretary or to the mine operator the burden of disproving disability due to pneumoconiosis once the claimant makes the threshold showing that he worked fifteen or more years in the mines and suffers a totally disabling respiratory or pulmonary impairment. The burden on the Secretary or operator is then to prove by a preponderance of evidence that the claimant does not suffer pneumoconiosis, as defined by the Act, or that the impairment is not connected with his employment in the mines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“his respiratory or pulmonary impairment did not arise out of, or in connection with, employment in a coal mine.”
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.