37612 Memorial Hospital of Iowa County Inc United States Department of Health and Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 1299 · 1988
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Clarke v. United States (1990), Izumi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. U. S. Philips Corp. (1993)
40 federal appellate · 6 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 11 U.S.C. § 362
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Marks v. United States · Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The precedent, a public act of a public official, is not the parties' property.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an opinion is a public act of the government, which may not be expunged by private agreement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not free to contract about the existence of these decisions.”
3 later decisions 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.