371 F. Supp. 2d 752 - Amato v. UPMC’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Hospitals may follow reasonable registration processes for individuals for whom examination or treatment is required by this section, including asking whether an individual is insured and, if so, what that insurance is, so long as that inquiry does not delay screening or treatment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 390 F. Supp. 2d 643 - Grant v. Trinity Health-Michigan · 410 F. Supp. 2d 1224 - Sabeta v. Baptist Hospital of Miami, Inc.

2. “[AJbsent some clear indication that the legislature intends to bind itself contractually, the presumption is that a law is not intended to create private contractual or vested rights but merely declares a policy to be pursued until the legislature shall ordain otherwise.... This well-established presumption is grounded in the elementary proposition that the principal function of a legislature is not to make contracts, but to make laws that establish the policy of the state. Policies, unlike contracts, are inherently subject to revision and repeal, and so to construe laws as contracts when the obligation is not clearly and unequivocally expressed would be to limit drastically the essential powers of a legislative body. Indeed, the continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions, it was disarmed of the powers necessary to accomplish the ends of its creation, thus, the party asserting the creation of a contract must overcome this well-founded presumption, and we proceed cautiously both in identifying a contract within the language of a regulatory statute and in defining the contours of any contractual obligation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 390 F. Supp. 2d 643 - Grant v. Trinity Health-Michigan

3. “failing to provide emergency room medical care to the Plaintiffs and the Class without regard to their ability to pay for such care; charging the Plaintiffs and the Class the highest and full undis-counted cost of medical care; charging the Plaintiffs and the Class a higher amount for medical services than they charged their insured patients of their of [sic; or] their Medicare patients for the same services; utilizing aggressive, abusive, and harassing collection practices such as collection lawsuits, liens, and garnishments to collect such outstanding grossly inflated medical debt from the Plaintiffs and the Class; and allowing noncharitable for-profit entities to derive a profit from use of its tax-exempt hospitals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 390 F. Supp. 2d 643 - Grant v. Trinity Health-Michigan