Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Ziegler Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 529 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2017
11 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 26 U.S.C. § 4121 · 30 U.S.C. § 802 · 30 U.S.C. § 901 (Black Lung Benefits Act) · 30 U.S.C. § 902 · 30 U.S.C. § 921 · 30 U.S.C. § 923 · 30 U.S.C. § 932 · 30 U.S.C. § 934
Relies on Southard v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Amigo Smokeless Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Consolidation Coal Co. v. Chubb · Roberts v. Weinberger · Eplion v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Division of Coal Mine Workers' Compensation
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); Director, OWCP v. Ziegler Coal Co., 853 F.2d 529 , 536 (7th Cir.1988) (preparation of coal involves what is done to the coal after it is extracted from its natural deposit and prior to its retail distribution and consumption); Eplion v. Director, OWCP, 794 F.2d 935 , 937 (4th Cir.1986) (employee transporting previously processed coal to barges for delivery to customers not involved in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there is no responsible operator, if the operator is in default, or if the Secretary paid benefits with respect to claims in which the miner's last coal mine employment was before January 1, 1970.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statutory definition of a coal mine ... contains a geographical component; the facility must be on or below the area of land where coal is naturally found and is being extracted.”
1 later decision 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.