Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor v. Baca’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 1122 · 1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2019
7 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. § 932 · 33 U.S.C. § 921 · 33 U.S.C. § 928
Relies on Rita v. United States · Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6 · Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · United States Department of Labor v. Triplett · Macharia v. Hodel
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attorney[']s fees may only be awarded when the claimant has gained some economic benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the successful prosecution of his claim.”
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.