Brooks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1991
7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Rosado v. Wyman · Townsend v. Swank · Haberman v. Finch · Michigan v. Rainwater
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)s a minimum, the dental services that must be provided include . . . services for dental disease which, if left untreated, may become acute dental problems or may cause irreversible damage to the teeth or supporting structures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.