St. Mary's Hospital of Troy v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield Ass'n/Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Greater New York’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.2d 888 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably St. Francis Health Care Centre v. Shalala (2000), Hoctor v. United States Department of Agriculture (1996)
19 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. § 1395O (§ 1836 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Knebel v. Hein · Pacemaker Diagnostic Clinic of America, Inc. v. Instromedix, Inc. · Humana of South Carolina, Inc. v. Califano · Cheshire Hospital v. New Hampshire-Vermont Hospitalization Service, Inc. · Sun Towers, Inc. v. Heckler
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.
“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 · from the majority“have consistently been held to be 'interpretive rules,' and thus exempt from the notice and comment requirements”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Furlong v. Shalala
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.