Emerson v. Steffen’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 119 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Himes v. Shalala (1993), LM v. State, Div. of Med. Assist. & Health Serv. (1995)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 13 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. § 1396 (§ 1900 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · City of St. Louis v. Department of Transportation · Department of Health Services v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · 754 F. Supp. 705 - Emerson v. Wynia
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Chevron [does not] require[ ] that the agency's position be stated in a regulation to be entitled to deference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Medicaid program, established in 1965 as Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1396 -1396q, as amended, is a cooperative federal-state program designed to “provid[e] federal financial assistance to States that choose to reimburse certain costs of medical treatment for needy persons.” States participating in the program must develop Medicaid plans that contain “reasonable standards” for determining Medicaid eligibility. These plans must comply with the Medicaid statute, Medicaid regulations, and the Secretary’s own administrative rules. The Medicaid program is the primary source of public assistance for elderly persons living in nursing homes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the applicant or recipient, in accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary. It has come to the Committee's attention that [the Health Care Financing Administration] is attempting to prohibit some States from treating the income used to pay spousal and child support payments as unavailable to aged, blind, and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries when determining their income.... 35 The Committee finds HCFA's position untenable. The Committee fails to understand how income which must, by law, be used for the support of someone other than the Medicaid beneficiary can be”
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.