Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. National Van Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 972 · 1979
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Hughes v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (1985), Randall v. Comfort Control, Inc. (1984)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Santoni v. United States · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert · Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the injury or death of an employee of an employer carrying on any employment in the District of Columbia, irrespective of the place where the injury or death occurs”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“of widest permissible extraterritorial application,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lacey v. Raley's Emergency Road Service US Raley's Emergency Road Service · Joseph H. Lacey v. Raley's Emergency Road Service, Insurance Co. Of North America, and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, Raley's Emergency Road Service and Insurance Co. Of North America v. Director, Office of Worker's Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, and Joseph H. Lacey“depends upon some substantial connection between the District and the particular employee-employer relationship”
3 later decisions 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.