Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Consolidation Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
884 F.2d 926 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2012
16 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 30 U.S.C. § 802 · 30 U.S.C. § 902 · 30 U.S.C. § 932 · 33 U.S.C. § 921
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Massa v. United States · Gibas v. Saginaw Mining Co. · United States v. Georgia · Moseley v. Peabody Coal Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“committed any legal errors or exceeded its statutory scope of review of the administrative law judge's factual determinations. Id. (citation omitted) Under Sec. 921(b)(3) the A.L.J.'s findings of fact may only be set aside if they are not supported by "substantial evidence in the record considered as a whole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Board may not engage in a de novo review, ... or substitute its own factual findings because it believes them to be more reasonable than those reached by the A.L.J.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our review of a decision of the Board is limited to assuring that the correct statutory standards have been applied and that no errors of law have been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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