American Mining Congress v. Mine Safety & Health Administration’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 1106 · 1993
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 46 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Kisor v. Wilkie (2019), Appalachian Power Company, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency (2000)
82 federal appellate · 46 district · 4 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. · Pacific Gas and Electric Company v. Federal Power Commission, General Motors Corporation, Intervenors. Mississippi Power and Light Company v. Federal Power Commission, General Motors Corporation, Intervenors · American Hospital Ass'n v. Bowen · General Motors Corp. v. Ruckelshaus
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether in the absence of the rule there would not be an adequate legislative basis for enforcement action or other agency action to confer benefits or ensure the performance of duties, (2) whether the agency has published the rule in the Code of Federal Regulations, (3) whether the agency has explicitly invoked its general legislative authority, or (4) whether the rule effectively amends a prior legislative rule.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it supplies crisper and more detailed lines than the authority being interpreted”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f a second rule repudiates or is irreconcilable with [a prior legislative rule], the second rule must be an amendment of the first....”
6 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.