Kaiser Steel Corporation v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, and Jesse Sainz’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 1426 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Stapleton v. Westmoreland Coal Co. (1986), Wetherill v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1987)
28 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. § 932 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Rosenberg v. Fleuti · Peabody Coal Co. v. Benefits Review Board · Alabama By-Products Corp. v. Killingsworth
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.
“It is not this court's function on review to weigh and resolve conflicts in the evidence. Rather, our review is limited to determining whether the ALJ's decision was supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole.... 14 .... 15 "Although the phrase 'substantial evidence' is difficult to define precisely, it has been described as such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court cannot reweigh the evidence, but may only inquire into the existence of evidence to support the trier of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the evidence establishes that the total disability or death of the miner did not arise in whole or in part out of coal mine employment.”
2 later decisions 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.