International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 1310 · 1991
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Michigan v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2000), American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1999)
28 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 657 (§ 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 29 U.S.C. § 669 (§ 20 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 42 U.S.C. § 7607
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mistretta v. United States · Yakus v. United States · Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“roam between the rigor of Sec. 6(b)(5) standards and the laxity of unidentified alternatives”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“safe or healthful employment and places of employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the scope increases to immense proportions, as in [A.L.A. Schecter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935)], the standards must be correspondingly more precise.”
2 later decisions 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.