Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 548 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 908 · 33 U.S.C. § 910 · 33 U.S.C. § 944
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Mansell v. Mansell · Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Lawson v. Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co · American Mutual Insurance v. Jones
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the time of injury is deemed to be the date on which the employee or claimant becomes aware, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence or by reason of medical advice should have been aware, of the relationship between the employment, the disease, and the death or disability,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ince the issue before the court is how long the employer is going to have to pay the amount determined to be due under [Section 910], it necessarily follows that the definition of time of injury found therein would be used for the purposes of Section 8(f).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended to reduce the cost of Longshore coverage for employers in the covered industries in a manner which will disturb, to the most limited extent possible, the rights and benefits which the Longshore Act provides.”
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.