Ram v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 444 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Cassim v. Bowen (1987), United States v. Henderson (2005)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 1003 · 42 U.S.C. § 1320A (§ 1128 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · MacKey v. Montrym · Barry v. Barchi · Northlake Community Hospital v. United States · Bowens v. N.C. Department of Human Resources
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expectation of continued participation in the [M]edicare program is a property interest protected by the due process clause of the fifth amendment,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“final decision on [plaintiff's] substantive claim would not answer the constitutional challenge to the validity of a suspension prior to a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that he is entitled to a pre-suspension hearing is 'entirely collateral' to his substantive claim that the suspension is in error”
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.