United Mine Workers of America v. Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 615 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Gatewood v. Washington Healthcare Corp. (1991), Solite Corporation v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and William K. Reilly, Administrator, Epa, the Aluminum Association, Intervenors (1992)
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Richards v. United States · Southeastern Community College v. Davis
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“during the physical inspection of any coal or other mine made pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“each underground coal or other mine in its entirety at least four times a year”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) obtaining, utilizing, and disseminating information relating to health and safety conditions, the causes of accidents, and the causes of diseases and physical impairments originating in such mines; 11 (2) gathering information with respect to mandatory health or safety standards; 12 (3) determining whether an imminent danger exists; and 13 (4) determining whether there is compliance with the mandatory health or safety standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.