Collins v. Blue Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Gill v. Rollins Protective Services Co. (1985), Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Minnifield (1973)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 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 54 Cal. 2d 632 - Fifield Manor v. Finston · McKay v. Citizens Rapid Transit Co. · Federal Land Bank v. Joynes · Hospital Service Corp. v. Pennsylvania Insurance · City of Richmond v. Hanes
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There a policeman, Hanes, was injured on duty by a negligent tortfeasor. The City paid Hanes’ wages during his disability and his hospital and medical bills. After Hanes had brought an action and settled with the tortfeasor for $25,000, the City claimed, by assignment or subrogation, the right to reimbursement from the set tlement fund. We denied the City’s claim on the grounds that Hanes had not agreed to an assignment, that Hanes was not bound by a personnel rule of which he was not aware that purported to give rise to an assignment, and that the City was not subrogated to the extent of its payments either by conventional or legal sub-rogation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“permitting Blue Cross-Blue Shield to be subrogated to the extent of their payments for Mrs. Collins we do no violence to the [nonassignability rule because] there is no danger of champerty and maintenance, since Blue-Cross-Blüe Shield seek to enforce a contractual right of subrogation against sums recovered by a participant from a tortfeasor only to the extent of payments made for the participant’s benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general right of subrogation has long been recognized and favored in Virginia.”
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.