Blum v. Yaretsky’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1,049 federal appellate · 540 district · 282 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,522 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996), Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. (1982)
1,049 federal appellate · 540 district · 282 state decisions — followed in 36 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
reviewedYaretsky v. Blum (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · O'Shea v. Littleton · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
Cited together with Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Rendell-Baker v. Kohn · Flagg Brothers Inc v. Brooks J Lefkowitz · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority
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 3,522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a State normally can be held responsible for a private decision only when it has exercised coercive power or has provided such significant encouragement, either overt or covert, that the choice must in law be deemed to be that of the State.”
246 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“traditionally the exclusive prerogative of the State.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“ultimately turn on medical judgments made by private parties according to professional standards that are not established by the State.”
23 later decisions 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.