Bagley v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Bagley v. Commissioner (1997), Kenseth v. Commissioner (2000)
5 federal appellate ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 104
Relies on City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Culbertson · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · United States v. Burke
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The critical question is, in lieu of what was the settlement amount paid?”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“McKay has necessarily acceded to Ashland's demand that nothing be allocated to the RICO claim, punitive damages claims, or alleged intentional misconduct claims and Ashland and McKay have both relied upon their appellate counsel’s consensus estimate of McKay’s probability of appellate success with respect to the [claims that defendant Ashland agreed to pay.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is reasonable to assume that IBP would have paid in settlement to [Bagley] the entire $1 million that the jury had found he was due as compensatory damages [on the libel claim]. However, ... the remaining $500,000 was in settlement of possible punitive damages [Bagley] might have recovered.”
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.