Ruiz v. Kepler’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1395D (§ 1812 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Baber v. Hospital Corp. of America · Norton v. Liddel
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case of a hospital that has a hospital emergency department, if any individual (whether or not eligible for benefits under this subchapter) comes to the emergency department and a request is made on the individual’s behalf for examination or treatment for a medical condition, the hospital must provide for an appropriate medical screening examination within the capability of the hospital’s emergency department, including ancillary services routinely available to the emergency department, to determine whether or not an emergency medical condition (within the meaning of subsection (e)(1) of this section) exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1) the individual went to the defendant's emergency room 2) with an emergency medical condition, and the defendant hospital either 3) did not adequately screen him to determine whether he had an emergency medical condition, or 4) discharged him before the emergency condition was stabilized.”
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.