Herb's Welding v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
703 F.2d 176 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009
20 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 43 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Davis v. Department of Labor & Industries · Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co. v. Rohde · Yazoo County Industrial Development Corp. Et Al. v. Suthoff Et Al. · Pfeiffer Company Inc v. Ford
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Benefits Review Board determined that Gray was covered under the LHWCA and remanded the case for entry of an award. The administrative law judge awarded $10,000 and deducted the $3,000 already awarded under the state compensation law. Herb's Welding appealed the decision of the Benefits Review Board to a panel of the Fifth Circuit, which in April 1983, affirmed the decision of the Benefits Review Board by holding that Gray”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ffshore drilling--the discovery, recovery, and sale of oil and natural gas from the sea bottom--is maritime commerce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was clearly employed in maritime employment and therefore was within the compensation coverage afforded by the LHWCA.”
2 later decisions 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.