Weaver v. Reagen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2009
2 district · 3 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Beal v. Doe · Paxton v. Union National Bank · Donaldson v. Pillsbury Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All persons in Missouri who would have or will be determined eligible for Medicaid, and who are infected with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) virus (Human Immuno-Deficien-cy Virus) and whose physicians have or will in the future prescribe the drug, Retrovir, for their treatment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“doctors commonly prescribe AZT for patients not meeting those two criteria”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“persons eligible for Medicaid and infected with the AIDS virus.”
1 later decision 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.