Wood v. Tompkins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 district · 4 state decisions

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

1. “Any argument that the requirements of findings and assurances are procedural requirements only and do not require the State to adopt rates that are actually reasonable and adequate is nothing more than an argument that the State’s findings and assurances need not be correct. We reject that argument because it would render the statutory requirements of findings and assurances, and thus the entire reimbursement provision, essentially meaningless. It would make little sense for Congress to require a State to make findings without requiring those findings to be correct. In addition, there would be no reason to require a State to submit assurances to the Secretary if the statute did not require the State’s findings to be reviewable in some manner by the Secretary. Rather, the only plausible interpretation of the amendment is that by requiring a State to find that its rates are reasonable and adequate, the statute imposes the concomitant obligation to adopt reasonable and adequate rates.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 149 F. Supp. 2d 941 - Brian A. Ex Rel. Brooks v. Sundquist

2. ““A waiver shall not be granted under this subsection unless the State provides assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that ... such individuals who are determined to be likely to require the level of care provided in a hospital, nursing facility, or intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded are informed of the feasible alternatives, if available under the waiver, at the choice of such individuals, to the provision of inpatient hospital services, nursing facility services, or services in an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 284 F. Supp. 2d 1298 - M.A.C. v. Betit

3. “individual causes of action [under the AAA] may be appropriate, depending upon the particular section or violation involved.''). 4 . Wood involved provisions of the Medicaid Act which allowed participating states to apply for waivers of various requirements in order to provide home and community-based health services. Under these provisions, states could not obtain waivers unless they provided”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 149 F. Supp. 2d 941 - Brian A. Ex Rel. Brooks v. Sundquist