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788 F.2d 158 · 1986

Citation profile

101
cited by 101 later decisions
July 2017
most recently cited

84 federal appellate · 3 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably York v. Benefits Review Board (1987), Wetherill v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1987)

84 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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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. § 921 · 30 U.S.C. § 932 · 33 U.S.C. § 921

Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Ramey v. Kentland Elkhorn Coal Corp. · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Rowe · Gober v. Matthews · Ferguson v. Schweiker

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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “independently review the record and 'decide whether the ALJ's findings are supported by substantial evidence.'”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “In reaching a decision, an ALJ should set out and discuss the pertinent medical evidence presented. The ALJ is not bound to accept the opinion or theory of any medical expert, but may weigh the medical evidence and draw its own inferences.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “'[W]e review the decisions of [the Board] for error of law and to assure ourselves that it has adhered to the statutory scope of review.'”
    3 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.