Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock v. Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs United States Department of Labor R’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 938 · 1982
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011
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 Bath Iron Works Corp. v. White · Avondale Shipyards, Inc. v. Vinson · Air America, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Walker v. Universal Terminal & Stevedoring Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must determine whether the Board observed the limited scope of review of findings of fact vested in it by the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Board is not free to disregard them or draw other inferences which it thinks may be more reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Before retirement, the asbestosis was not disabling; after retirement there was no diminished capacity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.