American Federation of Labor v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 962 · 1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Troy Corp. v. Browner (1997), In re United Mine Workers of America International Union (1999)
13 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc. v. Donovan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'uphold the agency's "choice between two fairly conflicting views, even though the court would justifiably have made a different choice had the matter been before it de novo.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at OSHA's action than we would if we were reviewing the action under the more deferential arbitrary and capricious standard applicable to agencies governed by the Administrative Procedure Act.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that modern technology has at least conceived some industrial strategies or devices which are likely to be capable of meeting the PEL and which the industries are generally capable of adopting.”
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.