Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor v. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company v. Jackie H. Harcum’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 175 · 1993
Citation profile
43 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs Department of Labor v. Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (1995), Alexander S. v. Boyd (1997)
43 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Estate of Cowart v. Nicklos Drilling Co. · Peretz v. United States · Lawson v. Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co · Barker v. North Carolina
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e should respect a reasonable interpretation of the LHWCA by the Director.... Absent clear congressional intent as to the proper construction of the LHWCA, we must give deference to the Director's reasonable and permissible interpretation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if supported by substantial evidence in the record considered as a whole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“materially and substantially greater than that which would have resulted”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.