Brinkman v. Rahm’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 263 · 1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2018
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bennett v. Arkansas · San Bernardino Physicians' Services Medical Group, Inc. v. County of San Bernardino · Bradley v. Austin · Gorrie v. Bowen
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.
“obtain a superior court judgment for the amount of the debt, and invoke further enforcement proceedings, such as garnishment or attachment, if the debt is not paid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Order[ing] the defendants to provide adequate notice to the plaintiffs of the defendants’ seizure of their funds, adequate notice of any exemptions that might apply, and adequate opportunity to exercise those exemptions, and adequate notice of how to exercise those exemptions....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rather, the hospitals' practice ... was simply to deduct the funds from the patients' hospital accounts without notice.”
2 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.