State v. Cowdell’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2006
12 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. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Marshall v. Reeves · City of Indianapolis v. Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners · Springer Corporation v. Herrera · Hedgebeth v. Medford
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of sub-rogation has consistently been defined as follows: 'The right of subrogation is not founded upon contract, expressed or implied, but upon principles of equity and justice, and includes every instance in which one party, not a mere volunteer, pays a debt for another, primarily liable, and which, in good conscience, should have been paid by the latter.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Subrogation. The Indiana State Department of Public Welfare shall be subro-gated to all claims by Medicaid recipients against third parties to the extent of Medicaid benefits received by the recipients, when the direct or proximate cause of the necessity to pay such benefits is the negligence or other legal liability of such third parties.”
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.