Farmer v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 269 · 1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2005
9 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. § 901 (Black Lung Benefits Act) · 30 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on Consolidation Coal Co. v. Smith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A deceased miner’s employment in a mine at the time of death shall not be used as conclusive evidence that the miner was not totally disabled.... [A]ll relevant evidence, including the circumstances of such employment and the statements of the miner’s spouse, shall be considered in determining whether the miner was totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis at the time of death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] deceased miner's employment in a mine at the time of death shall not be used as conclusive evidence that the miner was not totally disabled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the miner continued to work in a coal mine at the time of his death.”
1 later decision 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.