Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc. v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 63 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2011
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 29 U.S.C. § 652 (§ 3 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 29 U.S.C. § 655 (§ 6 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 44 U.S.C. § 3501 (Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on United States v. New York Telephone Co. · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Industrial Union Department v. American Petroleum Institute Marshall · United Steelworkers of America v. Auchter · Florida Peach Growers Ass'n v. United States Department of Labor
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] requirement that the Secretary assess risk to workers and need for disclosure with respect to each substance in each industry would effectively cripple OSHA's performance of the duty imposed on it....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“thousands of chemical substances used in numerous industries,”
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.