Geriatrics, Inc. v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 262 · 1981
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Koerpel v. Heckler (1986), Silver v. Baggiano (1986)
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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. § 1395A (§ 1802 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395C (§ 1811 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Perry v. Sindermann · Leis v. Flynt · O'Bannon v. Town Court Nursing Center
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wholly incidental to the purpose and design of the program.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not the intended beneficiary of the Medicaid program. Instead, the purpose underlying the funding program is to extend financial benefits to the patients eligible to receive their care at government expense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he unfortunate reality that [the provider] will probably encounter difficulty operating at capacity ... [is] not of constitutional significance”
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.