Good Samaritan Hospital v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
337 federal appellate · 132 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 961 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Mead Corp. (2001), Thomas Jefferson University v. Shalala (1994)
337 federal appellate · 132 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedGood Samaritan Hospital v. Sullivan (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1395 (§ 1801 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395F (§ 1814 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395W (§ 1844 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395X (§ 1861 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc
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 961 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The starting point in interpreting a statute is its language, for if the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'entitled to considerably less deference' than a consistently held agency view.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Secretary is not estopped from changing a view she believes to have been grounded upon a mistaken legal interpretation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.