Maxey v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 874 · 1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Congleton (1984), Hillibush v. U.S. Department of Labor, Benefits Review Board (1988)
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 Laws v. Celebrezze · Arnold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Jordan v. Califano · Cantrell 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] bald conclusion, unsupported by reasoning or evidence, is generally of no use to a reviewing court,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a miner who is suffering or suffered from pneumoconiosis, must submit the evidence necessary to establish that the pneumoconiosis arose out of employment in the nation's coal mines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“good evidence that his pneumoconiosis arose from his coal mine employment.”
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.