Beal v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 60 district · 188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 745 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey (1992), Harris v. McRae (1980)
168 federal appellate · 60 district · 188 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDoe v. Beal (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Singleton v. Wulff · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 745 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confers broad discretion on the States to adopt standards for determining the extent of medical assistance, requiring only that such standards be 'reasonable' and 'consistent with the objectives' of the Act.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“include reasonable standards ... for determining ... the extent of medical assistance under the plan which ... are consistent with the objectives of [the Act].”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“serious statutory questions might be presented if a state Medicaid plan excluded necessary medical treatment from its coverage.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.