Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. North American Coal Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 1137 · 1980
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Tom v. Heckler (1985), Arch Mineral Corp. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor (1986)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Aragon · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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.
“[A] court should not consider an argument which has not been raised in the agency proceedings which preceded the appeal, absent unusual circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]imple fairness to those who are engaged in the tasks of administration, and to litigants, requires as a general rule that courts should not topple over administrative decisions unless the administrative body not only has erred but has erred against objection made at the time appropriate under its practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“argument with far-reaching implications for (the BLBA) ... without the benefit of ... (the BRB's) expert evaluation.”
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.