Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Midland Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 509 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Freeman United Coal Mining Co. v. Office of Workers' Compensation Program (1993), Shelton v. Old Ben Coal Co. (1991)
26 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. § 921
Relies on Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Ball · Knudtson v. Benefits Review Board of United States Department of Labor · Ensinger v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the function of the ALJ, based on his expertise and, we would expect, certain appropriate objective factors . . . to compare the surface mining conditions established by the evidence to conditions known to prevail in underground mines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e can discern no plain meaning of the requirement of 'substantial similarity.' Instead, immediately apparent is the fact that the Act does not specify whether a claimant must establish similarity to a particular underground mine, a hypothetical underground mine, the best, worst, or an average underground mine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his court reviews the ALJ's and the Board's determinations on matters of law under a de novo standard,”
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.