480 F. Supp. 97 - Simpson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2004
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396D (§ 1905 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Hagans v. Lavine · Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · Beal v. Doe · Preterm, Inc. v. Dukakis · White v. Beal
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.
“[t]he Medicaid agency may not arbitrarily deny or reduce the amount, duration, or scope of a required service ... to an otherwise eligible recipient solely because of the diagnosis, type of illness, or condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. Patterson“sufficient in amount, duration, and scope to reasonably achieve its purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. Patterson
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.