National Coal Ass'n v. Chater’s Empirical Analysis
81 F.3d 1077 · 1996
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Jove Engineering, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (1996), Midrash Sephardi, Inc. v. Town of Surfside (2004)
23 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Bailey v. United States · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Ratzlaf et Ux United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.... [Beginning in the base year, HHS] paid a predetermined amount per plan member per month, without regard to the amount of money that the [predecessor] plans actually spent for Medicare-covered services. .... [I]n the base year, the [predecessor] plans spent $156.8 million on Medicare Part B and related administrative expenses [and] received $182.3 million in risk-capitation payments for Medicare Part B services and related administrative costs, an amount that exceeded actual costs by $25.5 million.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[r]eimburse' is defined as `to pay back (an equivalent for something taken, lost, or expended) to someone: repay.' Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1914 (1986). The ordinary meaning of the term `reimbursement' is not restricted by any requirement that such payments be dollar-for-dollar what the reimbursed party payed out.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in § 9704(b)(2) refers to the entire amount that HCFA paid the Plans under the capitation agreement, rather than the amount that the Plans actually incurred in Medicare-related expenses, the court stated that”
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.