Correa v. Hospital San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
69 F.3d 1184 · 1995
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 88 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 277 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Quint v. Ae Staley Manufacturing Company M (1999), Blinzler v. Marriott International, Inc. (1996)
117 federal appellate · 88 district · 6 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. § 1395D (§ 1812 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 410 (§ 210 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Brewster v. Derwinski · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Darden v. Wainwright · Norman v. Reed
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 277 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the hospital is a participating hospital, covered by EMTALA, that operates an emergency department (or an equivalent treatment facility); (2) the patient arrived at the facility seeking treatment; and (3) the hospital either (a) did not afford the patient an appropriate screening in order to determine if she had an emergency medical condition, or (b) bade farewell to the patient (whether by turning her away, discharging her, or improvidently transferring her) without first stabilizing the emergency medical condition.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A hospital fulfills its statutory duty to screen patients in its emergency room if it provides for a screening examination reasonably calculated to identify critical medical conditions that may be afflicting symptomatic patients and provides that level of screening uniformly to all those who present substantially similar complaints.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]irst, “if any individual ... comes to the emergency department [of a covered hospital] and a request is made on the individual’s behalf for examination or treatment for a medical condition, the hospital must provide for an appropriate medical screening examination.” Id. § 1395dd(a). Second, if the screening examination discloses that the individual suffers from an emergency medical condition, the hospital must provide necessary stabilization. See id. § 1395dd(b)(1).”
12 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.