Friedman v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 383 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2018
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 1395 (§ 1801 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395O (§ 1836 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 Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. · Knebel v. Hein · United States v. Pisani · Fairfax Hospital Ass'n v. Califano
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Particularly in a program as complex and ripe with potential for abuse as Medicare, the Secretary has broad discretion to control excessive costs by adopting general prophylactic rules which, despite their inherent imprecision, eliminate the need for a cumbersome and expensive process of adjudicating item-by-item the reasonableness of costs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“costs applicable to services, facilities, and supplies furnished to the provider by organizations related to the provider by common ownership or control are includable in the allowable cost of the provider at the cost to the related organization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]he procedures outlined in this section [Methods A through E] have not been specifically directed towards the all-inclusive rate and no-charge structure hospital-skilled nursing facility complex.””
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.