Cohen v. Bolduc’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2022
8 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. § 1395C (§ 1811 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz · Hoffman v. Howmedica, Inc. · Hashimi v. Kalil · Rogers v. Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health · Superintendent of Worcester State Hospital v. Hagberg
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensures that a patient's right of autonomy and self-determination with regard to medical care is respected, even after she loses the capacity to make and communicate her wishes.”
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.