Town Court Nursing Center, Inc. v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 280 · 1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably O'Bannon v. Town Court Nursing Center (1980), McKnight v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1978)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the crucial factor in this context ... is that termination of aid pending resolution of a controversy over eligibility may deprive an eligible recipient of the very means by which to live while he waits. Since he lacks independent resources, his situation becomes immediately desperate. This need to concentrate upon finding the means for daily subsistence, in turn, adversely affects his ability to seek redress from the welfare bureaucracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“An open minded approach towards recognizing such rights enables the law to afford individuals the protection that due process envisions in the divers situations in which they are affected by government decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“transferred or discharged only for medical reasons or for his welfare or that of other patients, or for nonpayment for his stay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Klein v. Califano
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.