Clark v. Stovall’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “distribute collections as follows — (a) To itself, an amount equal to State Medicaid expenditures for the individual on whose right the collection was based. (b) To the Federal Government, the Federal Share of the State Medicaid expenditures.... (c) To the recipient, any remaining amount.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Barton v. Summers

2. “[A] State may use amounts recovered or paid to the State as part of a comprehensive or individual settlement, or a judgment, described in clause (i) for any expenditures determined appropriate by the State.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Barton v. Summers

3. “any amount recovered or paid to a State as part of the comprehensive settlement of November 1998 between manufacturers of tobacco products . . . and State Attorneys General.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Greenless v. Almond