Manfredi v. Maher’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2000
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Dandridge v. Williams · Hagans v. Lavine · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Jefferson v. Hackney
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A State plan for medical assistance must— (17) include reasonable standards (which shall be comparable for all groups and may, in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary, differ with respect to income levels, . . .) for determining eligibility for and the extent of medical assistance under the plan which (A) are consistent with the objectives of this subchapter, (B) provide for taking into account only such income and resources as are, as determined in accordance with standards prescribed by¡ the Secretary, available to the applicant or recipient . (C) provide for reasonable evaluation of any such income or resources, and (D) do not take into account the financial responsibility of any individual for any applicant or recipient of assistance under the plan unless such applicant or recipient is such individual’s spouse or such individual’s child who is under age 21 . . . . (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herweg v. Ray“prohibited the Connecticut scheme. The court found that the state system threatened the liable relative with the imminent probability that his or her spouse will be evicted from the nursing home if contributions are not promptly forwarded, and that such administrative coercion was included in § 407's prohibition of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Stanton“Nothing in the (Social Security Act) precludes a state from exercising its financial responsibility laws . . . in cases of unwarranted neglect, where, for example, a wealthy individual refuses to support an institutionalized spouse, even though he or she would be financially able to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herweg v. Ray
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.