Eplion v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 935 · 1986
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Collins v. Director, Office of Workers Compensation Programs (1986), Pennsylvania Electric Company v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (1992)
35 federal appellate ·
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. § 802 · 30 U.S.C. § 901 (Black Lung Benefits Act) · 30 U.S.C. § 902 · 30 U.S.C. § 932 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Zbosnik v. Badger Coal Co. · Amigo Smokeless Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Roberts v. Weinberger
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as: 5 any individual who works or has worked in or around a coal mine or coal preparation facility in the extraction or preparation of coal. Such term also includes an individual who works or has worked in coal mine construction or transportation in or around a coal mine, to the extent such individual was exposed to coal dust as a result of such employment. 6 30 U.S.C. Sec. 902(d) (1982). 7 The Fourth Circuit has drawn upon this statutory language in fashioning its own two part”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Board's resolution of questions of statutory construction or application of the Act to the particular facts of a case must be upheld if supported by a reasonable factual and legal basis.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an area of land and all structures, facilities, machinery, tools, equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels, excavations, and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under, or above the surface of such land ..., used in, or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting in such area ... coal ... and the work of preparing the coal so extracted....”
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.