Bloom v. O'BRIEN’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2018
4 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York · Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he itemized bill is indisputably part of a commercial transaction, but it does not propose a transaction as such. A bill is not a proposal that the patient pay for services already rendered, it is a demand for payment. Itemizing the specific dollar amount of the gross revenue tax being passed along to a patient would simply inform consumers that, in addition to charges for the medical service provided, they were also paying a share of the tax imposed on the health care provider”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the test for identifying commercial speech”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.