Lang v. Berger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) only when, and to the extent, medically necessary, as determined in the exercise of reasonable limits of professional discretion; and (2) in the case of services provided by a hospital or other health care facility on an inpatient basis, only when and for such period as such services cannot, consistent with professionally recognized health care standards, effectively be provided on an outpatient basis or more economically in an inpatient health care facility of a different type, as determined in the exercise of reasonable limits of professional discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Greater New York Hospital Association v. Barbara B. Blum, Commissioner of Social Services of the State of New York

2. “The purpose of (the Professional Standards Review Law) ... is to limit the unnecessary and improper use of medical facilities and medical care under, inter alia, the Medicaid program”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Greater New York Hospital Ass'n v. Blum