Todd ex rel. Todd v. Sorrell’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 87 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2020
5 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1396B (§ 1903 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Blackwelder Furniture Co. of Statesville, Inc. v. Seilig Manufacturing Co. · Hamilton Watch Co. v. Benrus Watch Co. · Sinclair Refining Co. v. Midland Oil Co. · 681 F. Supp. 1232 - Allen v. Mansour
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the COBRA of 1985, the Social Security Act was amended to receive federal payments for organ transplants. However, in order to receive these funds, the State must adopt a plan providing written standards....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff has raised questions going to the merits so serious, substantial, difficult and doubtful, as to make them fair ground for litigation and thus for more deliberate investigation.”
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.