Palmer Coking Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs of United States Department of Labor’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1054 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2014
19 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 30 U.S.C. § 901 (Black Lung Benefits Act) · 30 U.S.C. § 921 · 30 U.S.C. § 932 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · Bumble Bee Seafoods v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Todd Shipyards Corp. v. Black · Peabody Coal Co. v. Benefits Review Board · Bailey v. Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
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.
“a chronic dust disease of the lung and its sequelae, including respiratory and pulmonary impairments, arising out of coal mine employment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Benefits are provided under the Act for or on behalf of miners who are totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis, or who were totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis at the time of death. The standards of this section shall be applied to determine whether a miner is or was "totally disabled” for the purpose of the Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We may not substitute our own judgment [concerning credibility] for that of the trier of fact who heard the testimony and observed the witness' demeanor.”
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.