Old Dominion Power Co. v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 92 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2017
11 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 29 U.S.C. § 653 (§ 4 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 30 U.S.C. § 801 (Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972) · 30 U.S.C. § 802 · 30 U.S.C. § 814
Relies on General Electric Co. v. Gilbert · South Dakota v. Nebraska · Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc., and Each of Its Member Companies Listed, Association of Bituminous Contractors, Inc., Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Secretary of Interior, Bituminous Coal Operators' Association, Inc., and Each of Its Member Companies Listed, Association of Bituminous Contractors, Inc. v. Secretary of Interior · Brennan v. Butler Lime & Cement Co. · Southern Railway Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make[s] clear Congress' intent to define as 'operators' only those independent contractors who are engaged in mine construction or the extraction process, and who have a 'continuing presence' at the mine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]equiring electric utility employees suddenly to adhere to conflicting standards depending on their job location can only lead to danger, especially where work around high voltage is involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any independent contractor performing services ... at [a] mine.”
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.