Goodman v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 449 · 1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Mikes v. Straus (2001), Yale-New Haven Hospital v. Leavitt (2006)
8 federal appellate · 9 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. § 1395 (§ 1801 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395H (§ 1816 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1395Y (§ 1862 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Poland v. Arizona · Orchards v. United States · Rush v. Parham · Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. v. Gerace · Hultzman v. Weinberger
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the government could not possibly adjudicate on a case-by-case basis whether a given procedure is `not reasonable and necessary,' the Secretary, in order to execute faithfully the mandates of the Medicare statute, necessarily must paint with a broad brush by issuing regulations specifying certain services as per se not reasonable or necessary . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“payment of benefits for any experimental, investigational, or unproven treatment or diagnostic method not yet generally accepted in the medical profession”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mikes v. Straus
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.