Rath v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2016
1 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Moline Properties, Inc. v. Commissioner · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. National Alfalfa Dehydrating and Milling Company · Huntsberry v. Commissioner · Morgan v. Commissioner
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we require unequivocal evidence of legislative purpose before construing the statute so as to override the plain meaning of the words used therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.