Freeman United Coal Mining Company v. Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs United States Department of Labor’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 629 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Bittner v. Sadoff & Rudoy Industries (1984), Parks v. Pavkovic (1985)
24 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 30 U.S.C. § 901 (Black Lung Benefits Act) · 30 U.S.C. § 932 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Abrams v. Interco Inc. · Cinerama, Inc., a New York Corporation v. Sweet Music, S.A., a Swiss Corporation, and Union Bank of Switzerland, a Swiss Corporation · Masalosalo v. Stonewall Insurance · Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Benefits Review Board · Muscare v. Quinn
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot think of any reason for reading 'final order' in the LWHCA [Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act] or black-lung act differently [than the ordinary civil action on appeal from a federal district court], and therefore join the circuits that have held that the terms mean the same thing.”
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.